GENDER BALANCE
Good news for Territory blokes as data reveals female to male ratio starting to even up
IF you’re a bloke and finding it hard to get a date, there’s good reason for your loveless woes.
Males outnumber women 105.7 to every 100 women, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The results indicate there are more than 7000 more males than females living in the Territory.
Quite literally it’s a sea of men, but the good news is the ratio has dropped in the past year from 112 men per 100 women.
However, Charles Darwin University principal research fellow Tom Wilson said the drop in ratio should be read with caution.
“It’s a little unsettling to see a trend going one way and then the other way when the data came out,” he said.
He said more research needed to be done to understand what was happening.
Mr Wilson said factors such as the Census under-count and the transient nature of the NT made it difficult to pinpoint exactly what was happening.
“You’d expect that during boom time for construction and resources the sex ratio would increase, and then a quieter time in the economic cycle it might go down a bit,” he said.
He said traditionally the NT had always had a male-dominated population and put it down to the construction and mining sector — which has historically been a field for blokes.
Paul Gilbert has lived in the NT for more than seven years and said he’d never had a problem with finding a date.
“It’s called Tinder. I’ve met some great girls on there and I’m friends with a lot of them.”