Australia, a beautiful land adorned with rippling waves, golden shores and glowing sunshine, sounds like paradise? Well new census figures show that there is a growing problem affecting life down under… and that is a lack of the male species.

According to statistics at present there are almost 100,000 more females than males in Australia, with the imbalance steadily increasing. According to the national census the figures are largely a product of changes in immigration trends throughout the country as a whole.

Coastal cities in the Australia are particularly feeling the female dominance, as many women whom were previously residing in more rural villages and towns are instead internally migrating to larger, more cosmopolitan areas in the hunt for greater employment opportunities.

Although a natural sign of the times, this alone is not the reason for such a radical change in census numbers. Instead it is this movement combined with the external movement of Australia’s men.

As global mobility increases the world-over greater numbers of men are applying for visas to study, work and live outside of Australia, subsequently leaving the women behind as the study shows that Australian women are less eager to move abroad.

This news is not the first of immigration affecting gender numbers in Australia. In previous years Australia has been flooded with men thanks to immigration policies favouring males. This however, is a position which has been reversed, mainly due to the thousands of Australian men in their 20s and early 30s whom are leaving Australia to seek work elsewhere.

Speaking of the census, Demographer Bernard Salt said “The exodus of young men to foreign countries is leaving its mark. If you go into the United Arab Emirates census you’ll find there is around large numbers of Australians living in the UK, mostly male, mostly in the 25 to 34-year age group.”