April 24 , 2019
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- A study on the world population trends was conducted by a team of researchers in Singapore.
- The report was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- It finds that 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.
- Approximately 10.6 million of these so-called 'missing females' are in India and 11.9 million are from China.
- China's One Family One child policy and preference for male babies severely compounded the problem.
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