Gender EQuality
Sex-Ratio Imbalance in Asia: Trends, Consequences and Policy Responses
The following studies were undertaken at the request of UNFPA for presentation at the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health. The Regional Analysis offers an overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the growing gender imbalances observed today in Asia.
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The following studies analyse different aspects of skewed sex balance ratios in four countries (China, India, Nepal and Viet Nam).
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Imbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth and Comprehensive Intervention in China Shuzhuo Li Institute for Population and Development Studies School of Public Policy and Administration Xi’an Jiaotong University Download Executive Summary Download full report (PDF) |
| Characteristics of Sex-Ratio Imbalances in India and Future Scenarios Christophe Z. Guilmoto LPED/IRD, Paris Download Executive Summary Download full report (PDF) |
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Sex Selection: Pervasiveness and Preparedness in Nepal |
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New “Common Sense”: Family-Planning Policy and Sex Ratio in Viet Nam |
A subsequent paper, "Estimations of Missing Girls at Birth and Juvenile Ages in India" was commissioned by UNFPA in 2007 to review the mulitple methodologies being used by demographers to arrive at an estimate of the number of girls that go missing in India as a result of prenatal sex selection. The author, Professor P.M. Kulkarni, an eminent Indian demographer, estimates that on an average 700,000 girls a year (that's about 2,000 per day) go missing in India as a result of illegal sex determination and consequent elimination. He estimates that this amounts to as many as 10 million girls missing in the two and half decades between 1981 and 2005.
