Across the globe, there are gender-related differences in different stages of life. Albania was ranked among the countries with the highest rate of boys born to girls. This imbalance in the male and female population can sometimes be traced at birth.
In the map below, created by the Our World in Data portal, we see changes in birth rates across the world. This sex ratio is calculated as the number of male births for every 100 female births; a value greater than 100 indicates that there are more boys than girls born that year. Albania's figure of 108 means that for 2017 there were 108 boys born for every 100 baby girls.
The sex ratio of births is higher in Albania than the world average, where according to WHO data and processed by Our World stands at 107 births per 100 girls.
Albania has a higher proportion of countries in the region, but also in Europe. Thus Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina have a ratio of 106 boys to every 100 girls born. While in Macedonia and Serbia, this ratio estimates 105 boys born for every 100 girls.
Countries where the sex ratio is higher are: China with 115 boys born for every 100 births, Azerbaijan with a ratio of 113, India with 111, followed by Pakistan with 109.
In the United States and Latin America, the sex ratio is estimated to be lower, ranging from 103 to 105 boy births per 100 girls born. While in the European Union this ratio fluctuates between 105 and 107 boys born per 100 girls.
One of the reasons for gender differences at birth, as Our World in Data explains, is related to selective abortion. In countries like China, India, Pakistan and Azerbaijan, the report shows that it is about gender selection practices.
Source: Monitor
