Demographic gender imbalance in favor of males due to prenatal
gender selection and misogynism in India and China will probably
handicap economic and social progress in these countries
relative to the United States. The US will have a long term
economic advantage due to its greater utilization of its human
capital and the future social disruption likely in countries
with large gender imbalances. "Early results show India has 914
girls under age 6 for every 1,000 boys. A decade ago, many were
horrified when the ratio was 927 to 1,000....In Morena, a sun-
baked, largely rural district in the heart of India, the numbers
are especially grim. This census showed that only 825 girls for
every 1,000 boys in the district made it to their sixth
birthdays, down from an already troubling 829 a decade ago." The
article discusses the social reasons for this result. It is
likely that there will be serious social disruption in the
future due to this. NationMaster provides data on the gender
ratio of the cohort under 15 years