Red River Delta gender imbalance highest in the country: report

A woman and a girl bike near Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake, June 26, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Anh

Gender imbalance in the Red River Delta is the highest among all Vietnamese regions, with 115 boys born for every 100 girls, a new report says.

The 2021 Country Gender Equality Profile for Vietnam, released Tuesday by UN Women in cooperation with the Australian Embassy in Vietnam, the Asian Development Bank and the International Labor Organization, notes that Vietnam has "an extreme imbalance in the sex ratio at birth due to son preference and sex-selective abortion."

The report said the sex ratio at birth in Vietnam, according to the 2019 Census, is 111.5 boys born for every 100 girls, placing the country among the five lowest ranked countries in the world. A normal sex ratio at birth would be around 105 boys for every 100 girls, the report says.

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