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. 2022 Aug;51(8):1886–1892. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v51i8.10275

Table 1:

Interest in male gender in countries throughout the world

Author Country Year Number of participants Percentage of male gender preference
1 Srivastava et al (10) India 2014 308 women aged 15 to 45 yr old 28.1
2 Kumar Nithin et al (11) India 2015 132 women with a mean age of 27 55.7
3 Dhande et a (12) India 2016 220 married women from village aged 15 to 49 yr old 95
4 Roy et al.(13) India 2017 116 women aged 15 to 49 yr old 52.58
5 Zubair et al. (14) Pakistan 2007 301 women aged 15 to 45 yr old 30.9
6 Atif et al. (15) Pakistan 2016 385 women aged 15 to 45 yr old 24.3
7 Rai et al.(16) Nepal 2014 100 women with a mean age of 31 64.3
8 Thapa et al.(17) Nepal 2018 200 women aged 15 to 45 yr old 13
9 Inyang Etoh et al. (18) Nigeria 2016 453 women with a mean age of 29 64.9
10 Al-Akour et al. (19) Jordan 2012 335 women aged 15 to 45 yr old 14.9
11 Fejes et al. (20) Hungary 2006 200 women aged 15 to 45 yr old 23.5
12 Edgar Dahl et al. (21) America 2006 197 women aged 18 to 49 yr old 39
13 Ahmadi et al. (22) Iran 2015 100 women aged 18 to 45 yr old 55