Annual number of missing female births and excess mortality, World
'Missing women' are defined as the number of additional women who would be alive in the absence of sex discrimination. Missing women are the sum of womenmissing at birth (as a result of sex-selective abortion) and excess female mortality through infanticide or neglect. Figures after 2015 are projections.
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