More Indian Girls Go Missing, a 2011 Census Says

When results of India’s 2011 census began to emerge in recent weeks, one statistic was greeted with shock by demographers. The country’s sex ratio of girls to boys at age 6 had plummeted because of gender-selective abortions or the deaths of female infants. For every 1,000 boys counted in India, there were 914 little girls, down from a ratio of 1,000 to 927 in 2001.