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USER ANALYSIS
from Ziyi Kuang Portfolio
by ziyi kuang
China has the world’s most unbalanced sex ratio at birth. The idea of preference for sons over daughters is the root cause of the high sex ratio at birth in China, and the long-term imbalance of the sex ratio at birth results in the imbalance of the ratio of males to females in marriageable age.
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According to the census data calculated by the bureau of statistics, there are 23.77 million more males than females in the population aged 0-19, indicating a serious imbalance in the sex ratio. By 2020, China will have 24 million more men of marriageable age than women. The cumulative effect of the long-term imbalance in the sex ratio at birth has been quite serious.