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Yeah everyone is lying except the bakhts



New Zealand population is about 3 to 5; million
My Apologies... you are correct... Actual NZ population figure is 48 Lakh.. i wrongly calculated
 
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Its truly fascinating...

If the UN comes out with a against India - as such (above) its total b.s.

But if the same UN comes out with a report against certain Groups or individuals in Pakistan - all of a sudden the India Govt/Media/Public start their, "...but the UN has labelled them as Terrorist outfits".

Oh, the irony.
 
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46 MILLION girls missing in India every year: U.N

46 Million??? That can't be a correct number... Even for a failed nation like India with a rape epidemic!!!

Maybe it's 4.6 million
 
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If you fellows really want to see the REALITY OF WHAT IS GOING ON INDIA, Watch this from Ross Kemp Extreme World india. It is an absolute shocking story of millions of innocent Indian women. I WAS IN TEARS WHEN I WATCHED IT - IT HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON ME. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST - VERY STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!!

 
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It's damn sex ratio, man. Assuming 1:1 to be ideal ratio, it calculates the deficit of each year births!
 
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Anyone want to take a guess as to what is one of the major contributing factors of this figure?



"It is safe to assume that a large number of the abortions that happen in India are performed because the fetus is female. Last year, an Indian government report found that about 63 million women were statistically “missing” from the country’s population due to a societal preference for male children. And this problem does not just stem from sex-selective abortion. The report noted that another 21 million girls were considered “unwanted” by their families, who continue to have children until a son is born. Roughly 239,000 girls under the age of 5 died in India every year between 2000 and 2005 due to gender-based neglect, according to a 2018 study."

“Extra males affect the social system quite dramatically. Even now, there are women being drugged and kidnapped from Bangladesh and poor Indian states because there is a shortage of young females. Take that effect and magnify it over a period of years. It’s a social disaster.”


https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/15/a-generation-of-girls-is-missing-in-india/

Terrible.
 
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NITED NATIONS, JUNE 30, 2020 12:26 IST
UPDATED: JUNE 30, 2020 12:26 IST

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    The number of missing women has more than doubled over the past 50 years — from 61 million in 1970 to a cumulative 142.6 million in 2020.
    India accounts for 45.8 million of the world’s 142.6 million “missing females” over the past 50 years, a report by the United Nations said on Tuesday, noting that the country along with China form the majority of such women globally.

    The State of World Population 2020 report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the world organisation’s sexual and reproductive health agency, said that the number of missing women has more than doubled over the past 50 years — from 61 million in 1970 to a cumulative 142.6 million in 2020.

    Of this global figure, India accounted for 45.8 million missing females as of 2020 and China accounted for 72.3 million.

    Missing females are women missing from the population at given dates due to the cumulative effect of postnatal and prenatal sex selection in the past, the agency said.

    Girls ‘missing’ in India at birth
    Between 2013 and 2017, about 460,000 girls in India were ‘missing’ at birth each year. According to one analysis, gender-biased sex selection accounts for about two-thirds of the total missing girls, and post-birth female mortality accounts for about one-third, the report said.

    Citing data by experts, it said that China and India together account for about 90-95 per cent of the estimated 1.2 million to 1.5 million missing female births annually worldwide due to gender-biased (prenatal) sex selection.

    The two countries also account for the largest number of births each year, it said.

    The report cites data by Alkema, Leontine and others, 2014 ‘National, Regional, and Global Sex Ratios of Infant, Child, and under-5 Mortality and Identification of Countries with Outlying Ratios: A Systematic Assessment’ from The Lancet Global Health.

    Highest rate of excess female deaths
    According to their analysis, India has the highest rate of excess female deaths, 13.5 per 1,000 female births, which suggests that an estimated one in nine deaths of females below the age of 5 may be attributed to postnatal sex selection.

    The report notes that governments have also taken action to address the root causes of sex selection. India and Vietnam have included campaigns that target gender stereotypes to change attitudes and open the door to new norms and behaviours.

    They spotlight the importance of daughters and highlight how girls and women have changed society for the better. Campaigns that celebrate women’s progress and achievements may resonate more where daughter-only families can be shown to be prospering, it said.

    The report said that successful education-related interventions include the provision of cash transfers conditional on school attendance; or support to cover the costs of school fees, books, uniforms and supplies, taking note of successful cash-transfer initiatives such as ‘Apni Beti Apna Dhan’ in India.

    It said that preference for a male child manifested in sex selection has led to dramatic, long-term shifts in the proportions of women and men in the populations of some countries.

    Demographic imbalance
    This demographic imbalance will have an inevitable impact on marriage systems. In countries where marriage is nearly universal, many men may need to delay or forego marriage because they will be unable to find a spouse, the report said.

    This so-called “marriage squeeze”, where prospective grooms outnumber prospective brides, has already been observed in some countries and affects mostly young men from lower economic strata.

    “At the same time, the marriage squeeze could result in more child marriages, the report said citing experts.

    Some studies suggest that the marriage squeeze will peak in India in 2055. The proportion of men who are still single at the age of 50 is forecast to rise after 2050 in India to 10 per cent, it said.

    The UN report said that every year, millions of girls globally are subjected to practices that harm them physically and emotionally, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and communities.

    At least 19 harmful practices, ranging from breast ironing to virginity testing, are considered human rights violations, according to the UNFPA report, which focuses on the three most prevalent ones: female genital mutilation, child marriage, and extreme bias against daughters in favour of sons.

    Harmful practices against girls cause profound and lasting trauma, robbing them of their right to reach their full potential, says UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem.

    Female genital mutilations
    This year, an estimated 4.1 million girls will be subjected to female genital mutilation. Today, 33,000 girls under age 18 will be forced into marriages, usually to much older men and an extreme preference for sons over daughters in some countries has fuelled gender-biased sex selection or extreme neglect that leads to their death as children, resulting in the 140 million missing females.

    The report said that ending child marriage and female genital mutilation worldwide is possible within 10 years by scaling up efforts to keep girls in school longer and teach them life skills and to engage men and boys in social change.

    Investments totalling USD 3.4 billion a year through 2030 would end these two harmful practices and end the suffering of an estimated 84 million girls, it said.

    A recent analysis revealed that if services and programmes remain shuttered for six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an additional 13 million girls may be forced into marriage and 2 million more girls may be subjected to female genital mutilation between now and 2030.

    The pandemic both makes our job harder and more urgent as so many more girls are now at risk, Kanem said.

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...Xpt1ylmJ4V9pa6F0hQj2glttPDV5z7wwCaNqdxXMLGPeM
 
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