Editing Sex-selective abortion (section)

=== Caucasus ===
[[File:Caucasus topographic map-en.svg|thumb|250px|Topography of the [[Caucasus]],  a region at the border of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], situated between the [[Black Sea|Black]] and the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] seas]]
The [[Caucasus]] has been named a "male-dominated region", and as families have become smaller in recent years, the pressures to have sons has increased.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Forestier-Walker R | date = 22 June 2015 | url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/azerbaijan-pressured-sex-selective-abortions-150621124644074.html | title=Azerbaijan pressured over sex-selective abortions &#124; News | work = al Jazeera | access-date=October 5, 2016 | archive-date=April 9, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409102453/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/azerbaijan-pressured-sex-selective-abortions-150621124644074.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Before the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in the early 1990s, the birth sex ratio in Caucasus countries such as [[Azerbaijan]], [[Armenia]] and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] was in the 105 to 108 range. After the collapse, the birth sex ratios sharply climbed and have remained high for the last 20 years.<ref name = "Meslé_2007" /> Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan have seen strongly imbalanced birth sex ratios in the first decade of the 21st century.<ref name=teconomist>{{cite news | url = https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21586617-son-preference-once-suppressed-reviving-alarmingly-gendercide-caucasus | title = Gendercide in the Caucasus | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170914204741/https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21586617-son-preference-once-suppressed-reviving-alarmingly-gendercide-caucasus | archive-date=September 14, 2017 | newspaper = The Economist | date = September 13, 2013}}</ref> In Georgia, the birth sex ratio for the years 2005–2009 was cited by ''[[The Economist]]'' to be about 120, a trend ''The Economist'' claims suggests that the practice of sex-selective abortion in the Caucasus has been similar to those in East Asia and South Asia in recent decades.<ref name="teconomist"/>

According to an article in ''The Economist''  the sex ratio in Armenia is seen to be a function of birth order. The article claimed that among first born children, there are 138 boys for every 100 girls.<ref name="teconomist"/> Overall, the birth sex ratio in Armenia exceeded 115 in some years, far higher than India's which was cited at 108.<ref name=teconomist /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Michael M, King L, Guo L, McKee M, Richardson E, Stuckler D | title = The mystery of missing female children in the Caucasus: an analysis of sex ratios by birth order | journal = International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 97–102 | date = June 2013 | pmid = 23895886 | doi = 10.1363/3909713 | doi-access = free | jstor = 41959961 }}</ref><ref name="Bongaarts_2013">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bongaarts J |title=The Implementation of Preferences for Male Offspring |journal=Population and Development Review |date=June 2013 |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=185–208 |doi=10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00588.x }}</ref> While these high birth sex ratios suggest sex-selective abortion, there is no direct evidence of observed large-scale sex-selective abortions in Caucasus.<ref name= "Meslé_2007" />

According to latest CIA data, the 2017 sex ratio in the region is 112 for Armenia, 109 for Azerbaijan, and 107 for Georgia.<ref name="cia.gov"/>