Swedish men soon in the majority
Published: 25 Sep 11 12:53 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/36348/20110925/
Centuries of female dominance in population statistics will be broken within the next four years. In 2015 the surplus of women in Sweden will be turned to a male surplus.
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As men and women's living conditions grow more similar, the difference in life expectancy has shrunk. This combined with a greater number of male immigrants is boosting male numbers in Sweden, reports regional newspaper Sydsvenskan.
According to forecasts from statistics institute SCB, the country will be going from a female surplus of 2,225 people on December 31, 2014, to a male surplus of 4,700 on December 31, 2015.
In the year 2020, Sweden's population is expected to consist of 38,200 more men than women, according to Sydsvenskan.
The male dominance is increasing for several reasons. More boys than girls are born today - 106 boys for every 100 girls.
Also, men's life expectancy is increasing more than women's. Thirty years ago, women lived 6.4 years longer than men. Today that figure is 4.7, and in another thirty years it's expected to have shrunk to just 2 years.
The coming surplus can also be attributed to the refugees from former Yugoslavia, Africa and the Middle East, the majority of whom are male.
In several Swedish municipalities, particularly in rural areas, a male surplus already exists. However, in larger cities such as Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö women continue to be in the majority.
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bad for females to have more men around?
No no, I mainly meant feminist. Bad for feminists.
The comment was actually a total strategic mistake.
You know. the time that the number of men was less than women, girls did not stay with men and were not loyal . Now they never gonna stay because there are always some reserves. Then, let me send my condolences to all Swedish boys .No more wife in Sweden guys; search somewhere else.
Good boys! good boys! what a' gonna do ! what a' gonna be now
A kind of optical delusion of your consciousness :D
NO just tell me : which one consider smartness my dear. Loving your dog more than your family/ boy friend or insisting on continuing stupid habits which are named culture. what kind of smart people they are who are harming themselves with drinking and smoking a lot.?
what somebody gonna do with beauty.? what we need is loyalty and commitment. These are going to make life beautiful.
Make your wife feel beautiful and your life will be beautiful.
Loyalty , commitment?
Hahaha no such anymore in the western culture.
In the past it was just because women did not have means of subsistence.
Marry and be loyal or starve/have a horrible life poverty ridden life.
Today they don't need marriage to survive , they can screw around to their hearts content.
Loyalty and commitment is useless if it is enforced and does not come naturally. A thing i suspect never was (natural).
It's a whore culture we live in , in toxic whore times.
I'm an atheist , by the way, but not a moral relativist.
Integrity is integrity, being a whore is being a whore.
Smoking and drinking, being unfaithful? All this I did, too. So I feel fully entitled to forgive. And I really loved my cats much more than my exwife. (Before she became ex-.)
By culture, I did mean books, musik, movies of the more complicated and sophisticated kind.
So I guess, a Swedish woman is more than good enough for my. We can love our pets in a nice communion more intense, than we love each other :-)
And I am not very attractive, aged, and I do not have lots of money. I did have a lot of different women in my life; I loved them all in different ways. Now I have to find the last one.
Actually the definition of a whore is "prostitute"... Since prostitution is illegal in Sweden, its hardly likely to be cultural.You are probably an immigrant from an Arab state who can't handle women that stand on their own two feet and have an opinion and can dress and do whatever they wish without having to answer to insecure men who are rival Christianity in hypocrisy......
The fact that you were too keen to state your "atheism" reveals that you are religious, And I would bet you are the "Arab" religion. Your vitriolic primitive post reveals you are nothing but an Arab foreigner with a chip on his shoulder. Most likely because no women will give you the time of day.....And can you blame them
Actually, i'm as white as you can get.
Really now, if you don't like islam, your stance is veiled in contradiction.
Through the whore culture and moral relativism and decay our birthrates drop significantly , which leaves us ripe for taking by other cultures that have much, much higher birth rates and much more aggressive cultures.
Not liberal or conservative i have right wing views on some matters and left wing in others. The right and the left are both very flawed.
The right because of authoritarianism and religious connotations and the left for their destructive, toxic fairy tale nightmare they are trying to force on us and their oppression.
Really now, nowadays feminists try to cover whoredom up with pretty words like "empowerment" and "sexual liberation".
If you want to be a whore, at least be a honest one and i won't have a problem with it, that's my mindset.
But these girls want to be princesses and whores at the same time AND be respected for it.
the "whore culture" is not because of the women, but because of the men.
I could tell you stories... many women do become raped by their own fathers or brothers!
And look at the situation in countries with Muslim religion in power. Women held like cattle. Circumcision. Have a look at the products of porno industry. Always brutaltity and cruelty against women. In Easten Europe they catch women with faked job offerings and force them into prostitution like slaves.
If you love someone, this person is precious to you, at least, if you are sane. If you want to have a relationship, the other person is fully entitled to have the same rights, you want to have.
Yes. There are women, who are going for having the rights of an emancipated woman and the rights of an unemancipated woman at the same time. But there are males, who claim the rights of a grown up man and a boy at the same time, too.
Yes, that's one of the reasons, but i would argue it's the result of female privilege and the crass discrimination against men at official levels.
The rate of divorce in the USA is higher than 50%.
Who would take that gamble? When she gets bored of you or finds someone else and divorces you, she ends up with half the stuff and the kids and other things.
That's crude discrimination against men at an institutional level, powered by feminism.
They don't want equality, feminism has nothing to do with equality.
The straight white male is the "black man" of today.
Honestly, I think Women have so-called "rights" more than what they really deserve, especially in Nordic countries. Anyhow, Hypocrisy becomes as essential and vial part of counties' policies cultures in order to be praised.
I believe that women must be treated nicely with respect and love. Also, I believe that women by nature are inferior to men. So, Women should never ever be in control.
I wish to see any feminist who is not a freak or sick....(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10526907)
I am 112% certain that it is pointless to argue with a person like you because of your ethics that you have showed on this website.
Anyhow, I find it pretty amusing how you mix up things, maybe your level of intellect is unable to understand the idea of the argument. Why on earth you talk about giving birth and taking care of babies?
Your question to me is totally irrelevant and out of the context. Besides, I stated clearly that women must be treated nicely with respect and love.
The discussion was about what so-called "rights" for women. no one cares about who gives birth and for your information soon men will be capable of giving birth (Thomas Beatie)...So don't butt in like a moron and say that because women do give birth then we must worship them.
Finally all your comments without exception really turn my stomach because of the pure ignorance and hate which are presenting. Anyhow, Correct your info and do not claim things out of your mind. In your comment #18 "Circumcision" is NOT a practice in Islam. It is related to some African cultures. Yes there might be some Muslims who do it, but they do it because it is part of their traditions and NOT because of Islam.
Better do not tell about the "men giving birth thingie". Your religion would never allow this to happen inside Muslim realms. Your idea is insulting your God. There are countries, where they would punish you for publishing this idea.
You said, women are inferior. I think, women are superior, because they can give birth to life - like God. And I did not connect your religion to your stated opiion in your comment, because I am always trying to be honest and fair. In this case, it means: Many nonmuslim males think the same way, but do not speak it out openly.
Circumcision is practice in African Islam. Africans are the biggest Muslim group. So it is incorrect to speak about "some Muslims who do it", most likely. (In fact, the number is 2 Million mutilated girls a year.) But this cruel practice is inherited by old African roots; - it was not created by Islam. Correct. What a pity, the new children have not been able, to resist adopting or continuing it! And tell me: Why does the Umma nothing to stop or condemn this practice?