From the mid-1990s sex ratio at birth in the three countries of the Caucasus (Figure 1) abruptly increased to levels that had so far only been observed in certain regions of India (Das Gupta 1987; Nanda and Véron 2005) and China (Zeng et al. 1993; Gu and Roy 1995) where fa...
Low male-to-female sex ratio of children born in India: national survey of 1·1 million households SummaryBackground Fewer girls than boys are born in India. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain this low sex ratio. Our aim was to ascertain th... Prabhat,Jha,and,... - 《Lanc...
in the 1990s using the educational data by examining the sex differences in birth under-reporting in the 2000 census.Results show that the estimated SRBs were not as high as those reported in the census.The actual SRBs and sex ratios at younger age groups are estimated to be lower than ...
A combination of factors has led to an increasing imbalance in the sex ratio of China's population. China's sex ratio at birth is 119 boys per 100 girls, far above the global norm of 106. This paper will focus on the abnormal sex ratio as a consequence of traditional Chinese gender att...