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[[File:India_single_age_population_pyramid_2020.png|thumb|350px|India population pyramid in 2020]] | [[File:India_single_age_population_pyramid_2020.png|thumb|350px|India population pyramid in 2020]] | ||
India is a country that has a deeply held preference for sons, and as a result | India is a country that has a deeply held preference for sons, and as a result it has an excess of 37 million males as of 2018,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-men/</ref> making up 2.7% of the country's population, but a larger fraction among the young, around 6.5% (see the figure on the right). | ||
Due to the surplus of young men, Indian men likely suffer higher rates of inceldom than Indian women, though overall, about an equal share of men and women report having had sex over the part weeks.<ref name="indiastats"></ref> While women usually lose their virginity during their teens,<ref name="childmarriage"></ref> men are more likely to lose it in their twenties.<ref name="indiastats"></ref> Statistics also show that sexlessness is higher in the south of India than the north,<ref name="indiastats">https://www.livemint.com/Politics/RC0cvSgItInzrPBjAZ3f2L/Sex-in-India-What-data-shows.html</ref> though some regions with the highest male surplus are found in the north, e.g. accounting for around 4.7% of the population in Delhi and 4.6% in Haryana,<ref>http://niti.gov.in/content/sex-ratio-females-1000-males</ref> and likely even higher among the younger cohorts in these regions. | Due to the surplus of young men, Indian men likely suffer higher rates of inceldom than Indian women, though overall, about an equal share of men and women report having had sex over the part weeks.<ref name="indiastats"></ref> While women usually lose their virginity during their teens,<ref name="childmarriage"></ref> men are more likely to lose it in their twenties.<ref name="indiastats"></ref> Statistics also show that sexlessness is higher in the south of India than the north,<ref name="indiastats">https://www.livemint.com/Politics/RC0cvSgItInzrPBjAZ3f2L/Sex-in-India-What-data-shows.html</ref> though some regions with the highest male surplus are found in the north, e.g. accounting for around 4.7% of the population in Delhi and 4.6% in Haryana,<ref>http://niti.gov.in/content/sex-ratio-females-1000-males</ref> and likely even higher among the younger cohorts in these regions. | ||
One survey found that men in India have the least sex of all countries that were survey.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10283499/No-sex-please-were-Indian-survey-finds-men-in-the-sub-continent-have-fewest-partners.html</ref> | One survey found that men in India have the least sex of all countries that were survey.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10283499/No-sex-please-were-Indian-survey-finds-men-in-the-sub-continent-have-fewest-partners.html</ref> | ||