BEIJING: China is faced with a huge gender imbalance, with the male population exceeding the female population by more than 30 million, data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics shows. The imbalance in the post-2000s and population of marriageable age are even more urgent.

In 2019, the ages with the most imbalanced gender ratios (males per 100 females) in China were children aged 10-14 years and 15-19 years. In these two age groups, the gender ratios were 119.10 and 118.39, respectively, meaning there were about 120 men for every 100 women, data shows.