India's Missing Girls

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Originally Posted by Sundae

The only brake I will apply is that the articles deliberately use number on the 1000s to make the fugures as large as possible. If you reduce them to 8.83 girls for every 10 boys, it shows that over 80% of women either do not seek pre-natal tests, or at least do not commit infanticide after they have given birth to a girl

Percentages do not change whether you give figures in the 10s, 100s or 1000s. 1,000s is the norm for reporting population figures, I think. I had thought that more girls were born than boys, but Wikipedia reports that the current ratio is 101 boys to 100 girls -although this may be skewed by the prevalence of sex-selective abortion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio

This illustration interested me, and I think backs up my feeling that in general, more girls are born than boys. So I'm goin to reverse your stat and point out that at least 1, more like 2 in 10 girls were killed because of their gender. So of the Brit Women on the cellar, one of us would be gone. And probably also one of the Aussie women. It's a huge, extremely significant difference.



Map indicating the human sex ratio by country.
PINK Countries with more females than males.
GREEN Countries with the same number of males and females.
BLUE Countries with more males than females.