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why can’t they provide real numbers it cant be that hard to ask a few schools to anonymously report how many students are in their graduating classes. We aren’t stupid we can handle numbers they claim a 4% growth rate where did this number come from?
The article you’ll find when searching “Jews and Jewish Birthrate”, together with the charts I referred to, answer these questions.
Even Accepting their numbers the problem only holds true if ALL boys marry girls 3 years younger. If as little as 11% marry girls their age or older there is no “age gap”
Where do those numbers come from? They’re illogical to me.
112.5 23 year olds are trying to marry 100 20 year old girls.
Your numbers are backwards.
Even if we were to reverse the numbers (and approximate and call it 110 girls for every 100 boys), you’ve neglected one very important aspect. After, say, 80% of the boys get married, that leaves 20 boys left, and 30 girls. (I’m assuming that the same number of girls get married as boys, although I don’t have any statistics to back that up.) That’s a much higher percentage disparity than we started with.