This chart just looks like a cool tidbit of info, but sex ratios have real implications http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569153/ …pic.twitter.com/yeL9rEUdv5
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@i_contemplate_ the explanations are generally stable: sex-selective abortion, war, migration. It's the results people don't seem to grok
@BookOfTamara Again, the UAE is a special case as majority of the population is immigrants and there are very few 'permanent' immigrants.
@i_contemplate_ yes, no one really mentions the UAE in conversations about the dire effects of imbalance
@BookOfTamara The Persian Gulf in general is this way - UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Oman. I think the dire problems are in India and China
@i_contemplate_ pretty much the result of sex selective abortions. If I'm not mistaken there's a village India with polygyny, right?
@BookOfTamara The press loves these unrepresentative single examples lol. Yes sex selective abortions. They are supposed to be illegal.
@i_contemplate_ emphasis on "supposed to be" I guess
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