There are a lot of odd side effects of demographic imbalance, but Latvia might have the most unexpectedly practical one. The country has so few men that women are now hiring “husbands for an hour,” not for romance, but for housework. It almost sounds like the premise of a questionable late-night channel, yet it’s a completely normal service in a country where the gender imbalance is wildly lopsided.

Eurostat reports that Latvia has 15.5% more women than men, over three times the European Union average. According to local media, that gap widens dramatically with age. The World Atlas notes that women over 65 outnumber men nearly two-to-one. There’s a national shortage of dateable, reliable, or even available men, and the cultural fallout is starting to show up in the most domestic corners o

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