• iii@mander.xyz
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    5 days ago

    Omg is there infanticide going on in qatar and the likes? Or are people not registering female births?

    Please let it be the latter, as a bad solution amongst worse solutions.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      In many countries where males are valued more highly culturally, infanticide is depressingly common. On a similar note, many countries have outlawed doctors revealing the baby’s sex during pregnancy appointments because too many parents would end the pregnancy if it was going to be a girl.

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        Can you elaborate? As for as I know this is about sex registred ar birth, unrelated to immigration.

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          Qatar and UAE are small petro states with more immigrants than natives. Most of these immigrant laborers are men in their 20s which skews the gender ratio.

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            Thank you, that makes much more sense. I EU too, most refugees tend to be male.

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            Thank you for the question. On second thought: I misunderstood

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      I can only speak for Malaysia. So here’s the news from last year census:

      https://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=2297508#%3A~%3Atext=He+said+the+country's+male%2C100+females%2C”+he+said.

      In general, for citizen it’s 103:100 male/female ratio, it’s only when added the whole population, including permanent resident and immigrant, the ratio skewed to 111:100, because there’s more immigrant men coming in to work as blue collar than women. There’s no widespread infanticide happening as far as i can tell, so it’s very likely just happen naturally.

      What happened in Qatar is very likely similar situation.

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        There’s no widespread infanticide happening as far as i can tell

        Just a little female infanticide going on.

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          As little as USA, that’s true. Except US prefer to kill pregnant woman, we here have free healthcare and sensible abortion rule.

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      This is probably on the whole population, so predominantly male immigration is likely the main reason.

      The map is not very helpful about what is actually depicted but wikipedia has similar data with a breakdown by age :

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_sex_ratio

      Qatar for instance is not very high (this is a ratio of number of male over number of female) on the “at birth” and “0-14” age bracket with 1.02. it’s actually a bit lower than western countries.

      The data is still concerning in some countries with notably larger “at birth” ratio and even an increase in th “0-14” age bracket.

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      Remember when there were a like 114 boys to 100 girls in China? That means they killed around 10-15 girls for every 100 girls born.