{"id":21909,"date":"2020-08-21T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/21\/selective-abortion-in-india-could-lead-to-68m-fewer-girls-being-born-by-2030"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:30:41","slug":"selective-abortion-in-india-could-lead-to-6-8m-fewer-girls-being-born-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21909","title":{"rendered":"Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girls being born by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New study shows preference for a son is highest in north of country with Uttar Pradesh having highest deficit in female births<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Academics from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia projected the sex ratio at birth in 29 Indian states and union territories, covering almost the entire population, taking into account each state\u2019s desired sex ratio at birth and the population\u2019s fertility rates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/21\/selective-abortion-in-india-could-lead-to-68m-fewer-girls-being-born-by-2030\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New study shows preference for a son is highest in north of country with Uttar Pradesh having highest deficit in female birthsAn estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,646,59,62,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21910,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions\/21910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}