by Satoko
I heard good news today that my boyfriend's friend is going to have a baby girl! I was glad to hear the good news, and he told me an interesting thing about birth rate. He said that there are baby boys born than baby girls. A rate is boys:girls=105:100 in U.S., which means that there are 205 pregnant mothers, then 105 mothers have a baby boy, and 100 mothers have a baby girl.He made a joke that boys fight and die more often, that's why boys born more than girls. I was curious about this different babies sex ratio, so I searched on the Internet. I found "Human sex ratio" on the wikipedia, right side of chart is example of babies sex ratio. This chart state difference of boys born rate compare to girls born,and each countries girls born rate are always 1.00. From this chart there are no country boys born less than 1.00, which means boys born more than girls. In addition, China is the highest rate of baby boys born in the world. This is also my boyfriend's friend mentioned,too. He said that there are only one child can raise in China, so after parents knew baby's sex, Chinese parents might want to keep a boy more than a girl, so some Chinese government decide not to check baby's sex before a baby born. This is because, if baby boys born rate increased more in China, it will be hard for male to find a wife in the future.There are 2 numbers of baby boys in China, the data 1.13 is from 2011, and the another data 1.19 from 2010. By the way, I hope he will have a healthy baby girl.....
Yeah, I like your topic~ In China, there did have some parents want to have a baby boy, and we now really not allowed to have sex tests to see whether the baby is a boy or not. But as long as I know nowadays most parents will not insist to have a baby boy, and many of the parents like baby girls better, so I think the problem in China will not exists any longer... That guy knows so much about China, is he or she a Chinese? And in the end, I like your picture, it makes the article more clearer~ By Yilin
ReplyDeleteKorea has also same problem that boy and girl rate is unbalanced, so goverment in Korea worried about gender ratio. Before I read this article, I had thought that gender ratio problem happens in Korea, but it's problem in the most of countries. I hope that problem about gender ratio gets better. Also, please tell your boyfriend's friend that conglatulation! "BY GABI"
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