China’s Unbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth: How Many Surplus Boys Have Been Born in China Since the 1980s?

Dudley L. Poston () and Li Zhang
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Dudley L. Poston: Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology
Li Zhang: Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology

Chapter Chapter 3 in Gender Policy and HIV in China, 2009, pp 57-69 from Springer

Abstract: In recent decades China has experienced an extremely rapid fertility reduction from more than six children per woman in the early 1960s to just over 1.6 children per woman in 2005 (Fig. 3.1). This fertility transition has resulted since the 1980s in significantly more boys being born each year than~girls.

Keywords: Total Fertility Rate; Development Review; Marriage Migration; State Statistical Bureau; Excess Male (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7_4

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