Dangers of giving birth

michaels

Strapped in to an electric chair?

Generali wrote: »

We have a winner!

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Taking approx numbers for illustration

Say there are about 1 million births pa in the uk 50:50 boys and girls, of the 500k boys 77 will die whereas only 6.5 of the girls will. Perhaps health service resources should be biased towards the boys?

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/censusandstatistics/a/moreboys.htm

Since 1940, an average of 91,685 more male babies have been born each year than females, a total of 5,776,130 over that 63-year period.
The highest sex birth ratio occurred in 1946 (1,059 male births per 1,000 females) while the lowest occurred in 1991 and again in 2001 (1,046 male births per 1,000 females).
Even with more boys than girls being born, women still outnumber men in the United States. In 2003, the Census Bureau estimated a total of 144,513,361 females of all ages, compared to 138,396,524 males.

More boys than girls are born, women live to be older than men.

nicko33

zappahey wrote: »

I would hazard a guess at "in your own home"

I'd say it's not the most dangerous place to be, but it could be the place most accidents happen (because you spend more time at home than anywhere else). DIY power tool accidents, cleaning your gun.
The home isn't a dangerous place, but it can be where people do stupid things.

nicko33

Generali wrote: »

More boys than girls are born, women live to be older than men.

Men do more stupid/dangerous things than women (and other factors)

michaels

It seems so, even as newborns...

nicko33 wrote: »

Men do more stupid/dangerous things than women (and other factors)

Generali

michaels wrote: »

It seems so, even as newborns...

I dint have the numbers to back it up but I think that many more boys than girls die in the first year of life, often from normal disease. All this is from memory but I think infant boys just aren't as strong as infant girls on average.

gauly

nicko33 wrote: »

Men do more stupid/dangerous things than women (and other factors)

Not just that - if you look at mammals kept safe in captivity, then females almost always outlive males. Humans have some of the most equal lifespans - so it's probably partly natural.

As for babies, I do know that female premature babies are much more likely to survive than males because female fetuses develop earlier. So that would explain some of the difference. There's also the factor that there are fatal X-linked diseases that females don't get. I don't believe it could be 10 to 1 though...

nicko33

michaels wrote: »

It seems so, even as newborns...

did I read the original link wrong?
I thought it was the number of mothers dying during childbirth
(as "giving birth" is something the mother does)

i.e.
in UK 80 in 1 million mothers die during childbirth
in US 170 in 1 million mothers die during childbirth

nicko33

gauly wrote: »

Not just that - if you look at mammals kept safe in captivity, then females almost always outlive males.

the males are nagged to death when they are captive

nicko33

gauly wrote: »

As for babies, I do know that female premature babies are much more likely to survive than males because female fetuses develop earlier. So that would explain some of the difference. There's also the factor that there are fatal X-linked diseases that females don't get. I don't believe it could be 10 to 1 though...

http://www.deathreference.com/En-Gh/Gender-and-Death.html