Wednesday, April 28, 2004
ASIA'S BOY BOMB
Here's an interesting article about the looming demographic issue of the excess of male over female babies in Asia:
In 1993 and 1994, more than 121 boys were born in China for every 100 baby girls. (The normal ratio at birth is around 105; for reasons debated among biologists, humans seem naturally to churn out slightly more boys than girls.) In India during the period 1996 to 1998, the birth ratio was 111 to 100; in Taiwan in 2000, it was 109.5. In 1990 a town near New Delhi reported a sex ratio at birth of 156.
It's going to be a problem...
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:35 AM
