City of women
Jul 16, 2008
By Adam Mullett

GIRL POWER: The women of Vilnius are taking center stage. Other cities in the nation also have a
dispropotional number of females.
VILNIUS - High suicide rates, alcoholism and emigration have led to females outnumbering men by more than 20 percent in Vilnius, according to the most recent government statistics.
The Statistics Department released numbers indicating that despite similar birth rates, women outnumber men in Vilnius in all adult age groups. Other cities show similar trends.
Deputy Director General of Social Statistics Dalia Ambrozaitiene attributed the difference to dangerous behavior among young men. "Avoidabl ...
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