Times- Millions of girls lost to sex selection is 'global timebomb'

Millions of girls lost to sex selection is 'global timebomb'

Men are set to dramatically outnumber women in coming decades, new global modelling of birth sex ratios has found.
Researchers warn that global long-term stability could be at risk due to the “cultural preferences” for boys in certain countries. Nations with skewed sex ratio at birth are set to “lose” another 4.7 million girls by 2030 — a figure that could reach 22 million by 2100.

The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, found that prenatal sex selection has helped skew the sex ratio at birth in favour of boys in several countries from southeast Europe to southeast Asia since the 1970s.

This will create a surplus of young men in more than a third of the world’s population, with unknown social and economic impacts, it warns.

Dr Fengqing Chao, from King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia, is the study’s lead author. She said: “Fewer than expected females in a population could result in elevated levels of antisocial behaviour and violence, and may ultimately affect long-term stability and social sustainable development.”

The projections were based on a database of 3.26 billion birth records from 204 countries from 1970 to 2020 as well as the experience of countries facing skewed sex ratios at birth before 2021, such as China and India, which have the highest number of annual births. Pakistan, Nigeria and other sub-Saharan countries are expected to follow this trend in coming years.

The sex ratio at birth in such countries is likely to stabilise and then decline within 20 years.

Reducing sex selection is a major part of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals. Dr Chao added: “This calls for broader legal frameworks to ensure gender equality.”

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