I didn’t know that there are now 60 million more men than women on the planet! Always assumed that there are more women, due to their higher life-expectancy in industrialized countries. But a lot of the gender imbalance is caused by people, traditions, and technological progress such as gender determination during pregnancy in Asia. Both China and India are infamous for widespread gender selective abortions and female infanticide. Both countries have birth sex ratios that are well off the worldwide average. Interestesting what an effect this causes on a global scale.

https://qz.com/335183/heres-why-men-on-earth-outnumber-women-by-60-million/

PS: The updated version of the article even mentions 66 million more men than women.

„In 2015,  49.55% of the global population were women. 81 countries had a majority of women, 36 countries had a majority of men, 75 were within 0.5% of gender parity.“