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Gender Imbalance Warnings in Vietnam

Submitted by on Sunday, July 20, 2008 – 8:11 pm4 Comments |

Preferences for boys in the Vietnamese society has created a gender imbalance according to this article by Thanh Nien News:

Gender imbalance alarm bells ringing

A similar problem is occuring in China.  Some reports suggested that Chinese men are marrying women with physical disabilities to cope with the lack of women there.

Currently in Vietnam, there are 100 females for every 112 males.  Quite a low figure.  The foreigner Expat male population could also make it more difficult for Vietnamese men to find wives as well.

Will this create an increase of Vietnamese males marrying Cambodian or Laotian women?

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