Want a baby girl? Well head to the Shetland Islands!
If you're looking for a pink pregnancy, there's one place you need to be ... the Shetland Islands, according to a new study.
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If you're looking for a pink pregnancy, there's one place you need to be ... the Shetland Islands, according to a new study.
Some people try for years to have a baby girl, but it seems that all along, they should have just moved to the Shetland Islands!
An analysis has revealed that the remote Scottish Islands are one of the few places where more baby girls are born than boys.
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Based on Official National Statistics (ONS) data, the study showed that in a country where more boys are born than girls, the Shetland Islands is one region where the opposite is true.
The ONS-gathered information on the number of male and female births in each UK town and county was analysed by cash house buyers Fast Sale Today, and put into a visual map:
The map shows how predominantly blue Britain is, and it also highlights which tiny parts are pink.
What makes a town pink or blue?
Over the space of a year, thousands of births were recorded at each maternity unit. There was very little difference in gender in some places. Just one birth could sway certain areas to become either a 'pink' or a 'blue' town overall.
But some regions did find a larger gap between genders, which leads to the debate of whether gender is determined by genetics, or whether environmental and lifetstyle factors come into play.
As the map shows, the Shetland Islands had the greatest difference in genders, with pregnant women 10% more likely to have a baby girl than a boy.
It also showed that those pregnant in the Orkney Islands are 20% more likely to have a boy.
But do you think it matters where in the UK you live? Or will you be heading off to the Shetland Islands sometime soon?
