The United Nations Population Fund recently released the 2016 State of the World Population report stating that boys outnumber girls substantially.
The report said an estimated 125 million 10-year-olds are alive today in developing countries adding that about 60 million are girls while the other 65 million are boys.
Released on Thursday, the report focuses on the well-being of 10-year-old girls as indicators of development success or failure.
It said more than half of the global cohort of 10-year-olds live in Asia and the Pacific, where there are 111 boys for every 100 girls.
Almost 9 in 10 of the world’s 10-year-olds live in developing countries where girls face obstacles to equal education, healthcare and safety, said the report.
The UN, therefore, is urging that even thought boys outnumber girls, countries should invest in girls as the majority of the world’s 10-year-olds live in developing countries.
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