Table 2.
Sex ratios at birth, by birth order: China and South Korea
| Year | Total | Birth order |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5+ | ||
| China | ||||||
| 1981 | 108 | 105 | 107 | 113 | 115 | 109 |
| 1989 | 114 | 105 | 120 | 125 | 133 | 130 |
| 2001 | 116 | 106 | 124 | 128 | 131 | |
| Urban | 116 | 113 | 130 | 119 | 119 | |
| Rural | 115 | 105 | 123 | 129 | 132 | |
| South Korea | ||||||
| 1980 | 104 | 106 | 104 | 103 | 99 | |
| 1989 | 112 | 104 | 113 | 185 | 209 | |
| 1992 | 114 | 106 | 113 | 196 | 229 | |
| 2001 | 108 | 106 | 108 | 120 | 128 | |