Many decades back there was scaremongering among the western nations that overpopulation in China and India will lead to hunger all over the world, which lead to a lot of programs that may have actually lead to US / Europe sponsoring these technologies to become widely available in China and India.

Ford Foundation is often cited as one of the main culprits pushing the ultrasound technology in these countries, the result of which is the current situation of skewed gender ratio.

Upward mobility of women (in search of grooms) leads to more and more frustrated men at lower levels, leads to more crime and overall desperate situation.

Sadly many recent articles follow the typical propaganda based approach and look at blaming patriarchy etc.

src: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/what-money-can... https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Co... http://indiafacts.org/was-ford-foundation-culpable-in-aborti...

Apparently, it could have been worse.

"Study finds millions of China's 'missing girls' actually exist":

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/inde...

It's interesting that there is a similar imbalance in China and India (~35m). That implies to me that the imbalance was not caused by the one child policy, but by sonograms and abortions.

Just reading about this and looking at a sex ratio map, https://www.mapsofindia.com/census2011/female-sex-ratio.html , there is a massive difference between a diagonal line between the North and the South. North India is what is described as dominated by patriarchal religions like Islam, Christianity, Islamicized-Hinduism and Urdu-Hindi languages whereas South India and North-East India practices animist or ancestor worship Hinduism (less Islamic/Christian influence) and speak Dravidian or Austro-Asiatic languages. It is like two separate countries. The North seems to be a terrible mess with well below normal female births.

> In India, there is the opposite effect: Because brides are scarce, families are under less pressure to save for expensive dowries.

So weird. Note that it says "less" pressure, not no pressure. Women are in short supply, yet their culture still requires the bride's family to pay the groom to take her? More evidence that those macroeconomic supply and demand curves are nonsense.

>“In the future, there will be millions of men who can’t marry, ...

Why? Two husbands are better than just one. More resources to support the family. Flip a coin and then alternate on the kids.

Multiple wives are allowed in other countries. Why not allow multiple husbands instead? It wouldn't work for everyone but it only has to work for some...

Here is the original article from The Washington Post (this appears to be a rehost by Mercury News): https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...

It contains more charts and graphics, but also makes use of parallax scrolling that some may find annoying.

Isn’t the consequence usually unrest and war?

This is also causing the average age when girls are getting married to go down and it is increasing the age difference between the bride and groom.

Is there currently any country with too many women? I've heard interesting things about Paraguay, which lost like 90% of their men after some really bad wars, and how it changed their society.

The 60-year-old mom who still cooks for her seven sons + her husband... Noooo! learn how to make your own bread - at least.

What's with the ungrammatical title?

It's the MercuryNews title, so not the submitters mistype.

Reminds me that USA Today had a front page heading with technology misspelled as techonolgy

Many of those 'more men' are from villages who didn't like girls. So they are swallowing that on their own, which is kind of re-balancing. By the way, given the tech we have these days, more and more young people seem to be OK to live only with themselves. Let alone VR, if you will.

I wonder what the long term impact will be on their societies. If brides are scarce, would it lead to the betterment of social conditions for women in these (traditionally) chauvinistic societies?

>>“In the future, there will be millions of men who can’t marry, and that could pose a very big risk to society,”

May I suggest a war between the two countries? This problem will be solved. I was being semi-serious but I remember reading about war being more likely since China had so many men.

Is Li Weibin’s life common?

I wish China and India would be friends instead of frenemies. Think of the possibilities.

> sex-selective technology

Nice way to say aborting female babies.

> ...demographers say it will take decades for the ramifications of the bulge to fade away.

heh

You mean too few women?

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Ford Foundation, Evangelical NGOs and World Bank Intellectual Yet Idiots are to be blamed here.

I remember in my childhood government ran this insane propaganda for vasectomy. Government claimed we all would die of hunger unless we stop producing babies. This propaganda was sponsored by people in USA who claimed population was a time bomb. Those fears were totally discredited with time.

Sadly good well off people bought the propaganda where as poor did not. Government even outright lied that vasectomies are easily reversible when in reality those procedures are more complex and not free.

That is why I caution current Indian government to simply ignore the first world problems like Global warming doomsday and instead focus on rapid growth so existing millions can afford to feed themselves and let USA and Europe play the global warming game.

Indian PM is smart and he used global warming scare to get billions from USA and Europe while doing only lip service to actual efforts. China is doing same and better.