Saturday, 16 June 2012
Imbalance: New population challenges be emerging in some Asian countries
Apotentially troubling and unprecedented demographic imbalance seems to be emerging in some Asian countries: shortage of females and surfeit of older populace. A study undertaken by Indian scientists and published in the British Medical Journal, The Lancet (June 2011) indicates that in India there are seven million fewer girls than boys under the age of six. In other words, there are only 914 girls versus 1,000 boys. If the present trend continues, by the year 2020, there would be millions of
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