Up to 16 provinces in the country are seeing high male-female imbalance from 115 to 128 male to 100 female babies: Nguyen Van Tan, Vice Chief of the General Department for Population and Family Planning

VietNamNet Bridge – By 2030, three million Vietnamese men may find it difficult to find a wife because the ratio of male babies is becoming higher than female babies, according to the General Department for Population and Family Planning.

At a conference on population and family planning in HCM City on Wednesday, Nguyen Van Tan, Vice Chief of the General Department for Population and Family Planning, said the imbalance between male and female babies is gradually increasing. He also said that the situation is alarming now.

According to this agency’s statistics, in 1979, for every 105 newborn male babies that were born, there were 100 female ones. In 1999, the ratio was 107 male to 100 female babies. In 2006, it was 110:100, and then rose to 112:100 in the last year.

“Up to 16 provinces in the country are seeing high male-female imbalance from 115 to 128 male to 100 female babies. This rate is equivalent to that of China in 1988-1990, when the country fell into the period of the loss of gender balance,” Tan said.

The agency asked provinces to strictly control the implementation of the Ordinance on Population in their areas, and prevent checking the sex of children in the womb and conducting abortions if the fetus bears an unsatisfactory sex.

The General Department for Population and Family Planning said that in the January-September period, Vietnam had nearly 864,000 infant babies, 40,600 more than 2007. The number of babies who are third children and upwards in their families is 93,000, which is 10% more than last year.

Provinces which have had the highest rates of newborn babies include the southern provinces of Kien Giang (66%), Tra Vinh (48%), Ca Mau (21%), HCM City (16%) and the northern city of Dien Bien (43%).

(Source: VNE)