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Indias sex ratio is getting worse. The trend can bereversed. 印度的性别比例扭曲越加严重，这个趋势能够逆转 THE news from Indias 2011 census is almost allheartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;familysize is stabilising. But there is one grim exception.In 2011 India counted only 914 girlsaged six andunder for every 1,000 boys. 来自印度2011年的人口调查的消息几乎都让人振奋。识字率上升;预期寿命上升;家庭规模稳定。但是有一个例外，很严峻。2011年，印度6岁及其以下的儿童中每1000个男孩对应只有914个女孩。 Without intervention, just a few more boys would be born than girls. If you compare thenumberof girls actually born to the number that would have been born had a normal sex ratioprevailed,then 600,000 Indian girls go missing every year. This is less distorted than the sexratio in China,but whereas Chinas ratio has stabilised, Indias is widening, and has been fordecades. Sex selection is now invading parts of the country that used not to practise it. 在自然情况下，出生的男婴只比女婴多一点。如果你按照正常的性别比例比较一下实际出生的和本应该出生的女婴的数字，你会发现每年有60万的印度女孩不翼而飞。这个性别比例的扭曲程度虽然比中国轻一点，但是中国的性别比例已经稳定，而印度的还在扩大，且这种状况已经持续几十年了。性别选择正在侵蚀着印度的部分地区，而这些地区以前不曾这样过。 | 
