rashna wrote "In Pakistan, infant mortality rates of girls are higher than that for boys".
What are the reasons for that, is your argument that female foiticide is being done in pakistan like in india.
polygandry is the topic here. lol
Ask Pakistanis.
Naturally, sex ratios at birth are between 102 boys to 107 boys per hundred girls, this ratio varies from country to country & from region to region, without any outside interference whatsoever.
However, all over the world, without exception, baby boys have a significantly higherr infant mortality rate than baby girls do the number of boys start diminishing immediately-this would be true everywhere if baby girls aren't killed or left to die from malnutrition or abandoned etc. Pakistan's sorry state of affairs in that baby girls die more than boys is obviously due to selective infanticide or severe neglect & malnourishment.
Anyway, Pakistan has the highest birthrate in the sub continent-almost 4 children per women, at that rate, most couples would have at least a single boy, the region you gave data Punjab has the worst sex ratios in India & has just two children per women, in general, the sex ratios in Pakistan, despite having a much higher birthrate(which increases the likelihood of at least one son) is as bad as India.
West Bengal despite being Hindu majority & Bangladesh being Muslim majority have about correct sex ratios at birth-in Muslim Bangladesh men actually outlive women, showing how bad the living conditions of women are that they even die earlier, not so in West Bengal. Many Indian states like the North Eastern states, Southern states also have correct ratios at birth.
In fact, in most countries in modernity, there are or should be more women than men in any nation's total population-when this doesn't happen, it can be due to many causes.
Infanticide is one, others are severe neglect, ill treatment throughout life, low allocation of food, medicines etc. As a saying goes, "There are more ways to kill a dog than to hang him."
Muslim nations generally have bad sex ratios, indicating severe neglect & ill treatment of women throughout life. In Europe, all the countries have more women than men-only Turkey & Albania have more men, unsurprisingly both are Muslim.
Turkey has 103 men per 100 women, Albania has 104. Other European nations which are Christian majority has more women than men, due to better treatment of women through life.
In the sub Continent-Indian Christians, Zoroastrians, Sri Lankan Buddhists have more women-indicating that Christian, Buddhists & Zoroastrian communities women are treated well from infancy throughout life, enabling them to outlive & outnumber men.
Afghanistan, Iran etc all have more men than women in their populations.
Topic: fraternal polyandry