‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate

Figures & data

Figure 1. Sex ratios at birth in Europe, 1750–2015. Source: Human Mortality Database (HMD 2018). See also Beltrán Tapia & Marco-Gracia (2022a) and Beltrán Tapia & Capelli (2022).

Figure 2. Child sex ratios (aged 0–4) in Europe, 1750–2001. Source: Mitchell (2013), Beltrán Tapia (2019), Beltrán Tapia & Raftakis (2022). The pattern depicted here remains virtually unchanged if the 5–9 age-group is used instead.

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