A man-drought in Australia
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Saturday, August 30 at Saturday, August 30, 2008.
I blame this on foreign girls with their gorgeous accents:
An analysis of new census figures has shown that Australia is suffering from an unprecedented "man drought". The statistics have revealed that there are almost 100,000 more females than males in Australia.
Thirty years ago Australia was with flush with men thanks to immigration policies that favoured males. That position has been reversed because thousands of Australian men in their 20s and early 30s have gone overseas either to travel or work....
"If you go into the United Arab Emirates census you'll find there is around 12,000 Australians living in Dubai, mostly male, mostly in the 25 to 34-year age group." (BBC)
The whole story shows two big demographic shifts are happening: men from the big cities are moving abroad, and women from the country towns are moving to the cities. So you have big cities flooded with single women and country towns flooded with single men.
There are plenty of good reasons why young Australians are choosing to live abroad in their twenties and thirties, but no I have no idea why it is disproportionately men who are doing so.
The numbers could also be a bit more complicated than the story suggests. Sure, there are more expat Aussie men than women in Dubai, but I'm sure the numbers are much closer to even in places like London, home to something like 200,000 Aussies.
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