According to a new study that looks at population data from 202 countries, the world could be missing at least 23 million girls because of sex-selective abortions. The majority of the missing girls are from China and India.
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The five-year study was conducted by a team of researchers in Singapore and was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It analysed survey and census population data from 202 countries.
Key Findings of the study:
There are now 23.1 million 'missing' females in the world as a result of people terminating pregnancies because the child would have been born female.
Approximately 10.6 million of these so-called 'missing females' are in India and 11.9 million are from China.
The added pressure of China's single-child policy and the desire of parents to have a boy compounded the problem led the global gender ratio shifted up to 118:100 in favour of males in 2005.
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