Catholic Church in Australia Urges Women to Be Less Picky - as part of the news and politics series by GeoBeats.

Every woman wants to make sure they make the right choice for a husband and these days, many are ok with waiting and getting married later in life in order to find the best fit for them.

In Australia, however, the catholic church is urging women to not get too particular when it comes to finding a husband. According to the Herald Sun, data indicates there are only 86,000 eligible Australian bachelors for 1.3 million women in 25-34 age bracket.

Dubbed as the great Australian man drought, one potential reason cited for a lower number of eligible bachelors is that many men in that age range move abroad for employment opportunities.

BBC noted in a report several years ago that this pattern has led to many concentrations of single women in larger Australian cities.

The average age at marriage for women and men in Australia has increased by 3 years since 1990.

There are other places in the world who have had to deal with similar issues.

For a village in Spain, they were struggling with fewer women so they organized a fiesta to introduce about 70 women from Madrid to the local male bachelors.