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> According to UN statistics from 2006, in India 37 per cent of women have undergone sexual sterilisation. If India's population in 2006 were approximately 110
by l5870uoo9y 8y ago
> According to UN statistics from 2006, in India 37 per cent of women have undergone sexual sterilisation.
If India's population in 2006 were approximately 1100 mill, then India had 550 mill women of whom 200 mill were sterilised. Are there some important information missing here? Were it only lower caste women which if I remember correctly constitute around 10 percent of the total population? 37 percent sounds high.
- John_KZ 8y agoPerhaps since there was a grand available ($10-$20/person, as the article says) the numbers were significantly skewed. At 20$/person this totals $4,000M. Although this doesn't mean sterilizations didn't happen, I'd be very interested to read more about this, preferably from a better source. If it happened, I've never heard of it and neither did many people I know, meaning it probably didn't get the kind of publicity this kind of Nazi-tier mass-sterilization programme should have gotten.