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80 million women needed in India & China to bridge the gender demographic gap
24-1-2019
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a summary of a report to be released this February (c.f: https://bit.ly/2UaOrGL), that India and China, the two largest countries in population size, need around 80 million females to create a balance in the gender gap in population count. India and China, the report said, suffer a severe shortage in female numbers. In some areas of the two South Asian countries, there are 120 men for every 100 women, and the number could rise in the future, the report warned. China’s one-child policy adopted from 1979 to 2015, was among the causes of imbalance in the country’s population composition, according to the report. Many families in both China and India resorted to abortion to eliminate female births. HRW maintained that gender inequality has led to many problems, especially in China, including forcing Burmese women and girls to marry Chinese men for USD 3 to USD 13,000 each. (Al Mustaqbal, January 23, 2019)
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