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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | More girls dying before age 5 than boys in India: UN report -Yoshita Singh

More girls dying before age 5 than boys in India: UN report -Yoshita Singh

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published Published on Oct 23, 2015   modified Modified on Oct 23, 2015
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India has the lowest sex ratio in under-5 mortality, with a ratio of 93 (93 boys die before age 5 for 100 girls that die by that age)

United Nations: India is among the countries with the largest surplus of men and a worrying under-five sex ratio with more girls dying before the age of five than boys, according to a UN report.

“The World’s Women 2015” report launched said men outnumber women in eastern Asia, southern Asia, Oceania, and western Asia. The three regions have the highest surplus of men in absolute numbers: 50.5 million in Eastern Asia (mainly due to China), 49.5 million in Southern Asia (mainly due to India), and 12.1 million in Western Asia (mainly due to Saudi Arabia and the UAE).

In absolute terms, countries with the largest surplus of men are China (52 million), in Eastern Asia, and India (43 million), in Southern Asia.

The ratio of men to women and the surplus of men in these two most populous countries largely determine the surplus of men observed at the global level, the report said.

The report said that in India, while sex-selective abortions have been technically illegal since 1996, the law has had “little effect so far on the sex ratio at birth”.

India has the lowest sex ratio in under-5 mortality, with a ratio of 93 (93 boys die before age 5 for 100 girls that die by that age). “This is also the only country with an under-5 mortality sex ratio under 100 (more girls die than boys),” it said.

India alone accounted for 21% of all under-5 deaths in 2013 and this low sex ratio in under-5 mortality is pulling down the average for Southern Asia as a whole and the entire world.

“Higher mortality among girls can be closely related to a general preference for sons in India, which is expressed in special treatment for boys in terms of parental investment in nutrition, vaccinations, access to health treatment and parental care in general,” the report said.

It further said that in China and India, between 1995 and 2013, women’s participation in the labour force declined from 72 to 64% and from 35 to 27%, respectively. Child marriage is also most common in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, with India accounting for one-third of the global total of child brides.

Livemint.com, 21 October, 2015, http://www.livemint.com/Politics/rmjFxExRkNKULjgM9JEIuN/More-girls-dying-before-age-5-than-boys-in-India-UN-report.html


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