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DY. No, I believe it has zero to do with the numbers born. Unless I am misunderstanding you, you are the one who keep harping on it. The “replacement rate” as I now understand you does not drastically change year over year. In fact, if the CDC statistics are correct, that would be a built in correction for the “age gap” which is being billed as the primary cause. Dont take my word for it. All you need to do is register on the CDC website and you can access all the data. Year after year, for more than 25 years more males than females are being born in the US. sometimes the number is 50.5:49:5 and sometimes it is as high as 54:46, but year after year, more males than females were born in the US. If the “statistics” in the jewish publications are factual, why is it that the births in the Orthodox Jewish community are so statistically different (the papers claim 5% more girls every year) that the general population (about 3% more males than females), year after year for so many years?