Too many men in China (via):
China’s controversial one-child policy continues to widen the gender disparity in newborn babies, according to a new report.
In 2004, 121 boys were born in China for every 100 girls, according to the government-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). That is up from 2000, when the ratio was 117 boys to 100 girls…..
The 2006 edition of the CASS report on population and labor in China describes how the gender disparity has grown since the Chinese government instituted its one-child policy in 1979.
In 1982, the ratio was 109 boys to 100 girls. By 1990 it had increased to 111 for every 100 girls, to 117 in 2000, and to 121 in 2004.
So the rate of increase of the gender disparity is increasing: up 6 points in 10 years, and now up 4 points in 4 years.
121 to 100 is quite some imbalance. If the annual birth rate is, say, 20 million, that’s getting on for 2 million surplus boys every year. Just one more factor to add to the increasing social tensions.
On the other hand, we could be entering the golden age of transplant surgery.
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