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That two times now that you have tried to call me stupid.
I don’t think you’re stupid, I just don’t think your train of thought is logical in this case.
In any case, I’ll repeat myself so you have another chance to digest or ignore my point.
I really don’t think you need hard statistics to realize that our population is b”H growing at a rapid pace. Anecdotally, to be sure, all of the schools that I know have larger younger grades than older grades. And any shadchan I’ve spoken to knows more older girls than boys.
There is a precise mathematical formula to figure out what annual percentage population increase there will be based on average number of children per family – TFR – Google “Growth of world population during various epochs of earth history can be calculated by a well-known formula”. True, I don’t have an exact number for the TFR in our community, but it’s certainly well above the replacement level, and more than compensates for the slightly higher number of males born. The question is to what extent, but the highest recorded TFR in the world is above 7, at which the annual growth would be about 3.5%. Replacement rate is about 2.1, so anything in between would still indicate a population growth, albeit less.
So we can use a “seicheldik” approach, and try to do something about the issue, or pretend that there’s only minimal growth, that the shadchanim are delusional, and there’s no shidduch crises. We then continue to let many bnos Yisroel suffer, because we didn’t do a precise statistical study. I would opt for the former.