First Big Survey of Births Finds Millions of Missing Women
15th April 2019
Chao led the five-year project, combing through decades of census data, national survey responses, and birth records to build models that could estimate national sex ratios across time. In doing so, she and her collaborators at the United Nations discovered that in most regions of the world, sex ratios diverge significantly from the historical norm. Across a dozen countries, the chasm amounts to 23.1 million missing female births since 1970. The results, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide an unprecedented look at how societal values can skew the laws of nature.
I don’t see why they’re so confused. When people can abort unwanted babies, those in countries whose cultures value males over females are going to get rid of the ones they don’t want.