TNPSC Thervupettagam

Female Infanticide

April 24 , 2019 1921 days 796 0
  • 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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