Indian girls fall further into minority in latest census
31st March 2011
Officials said they were alarmed at the tilting of India’s gender balance further towards boys amid growing concerns over the impact of female foeticide by families who prefer sons.
According to the census 914 girls are being born per 1,000 boys compared with 927 per 1000 in 2001. India now has 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females. Census Commissioner C. Chandramauli said the figures were a “matter of grave concern”.
China is having the same problem under it’s notorious ‘one child’ policy; like Indians, the Chinese are using gender-selective abortion to have sons rather than daughters.
Historically, when a population has more young males than young females, the result is war. Perhaps we can look forward, if that is the term, to eventual war between Indian and China — both of which are now, memorandum, nuclear powers.