Globally Declining Population of Women Folk Causing Sex Imbalance Is a Serious Concern: An Analysis of Sex Ratio around the Globe

Table 6

Regression analysis between sex ratio and other demographic variables among 183 countries of the world.

Bivariate linear regression analysis
Dependent variable	Independent variable		± SE	df	-value	-value	value
Sex ratio at birth	Sex ratio of 0–15 years of age	0.718	0.596 ± 0.028	182	459.9	21.4	0.001
	Total fertility rate	0.244	−0.723 ± 0.097	174	55.8	−7.4	0.001
	Crude birth rate (CBR)	0.231	−0.088 ± 0.012	182	54.4	−7.3	0.001
	Life expectancy at birth	0.222	0.096 ± 0.013	182	51.5	7.1	0.001
	Adolescent fertility rate	0.188	−0.019 ± 0.003	182	41.7	−6.4	0.001
	Rate of natural increase (%)	0.189	−0.846 ± 0.130	182	42.1	−6.4	0.001
	Human development index	0.177	4.812 ± 0.772	182	38.8	6.2	0.001
	Infant mortality rate (IMR)	0.163	−0.026 ± 0.004	182	35.2	−5.9	0.001
	Gender inequality index	0.161	−4.336 ± 0.367	142	26.9	−5.1	0.001
	Crude death rate (CDR)	0.053	−0.130 ± 0.041	182	10.1	−3.1	0.002
	Sex ratio of 15–64 years of age	0.002	0.004 ± 0.008	182	0.3	0.6	0.560
	Sex ratio of population 65+	0	−0.001 ± 0.009	182	0.01	−0.13	0.894
	Sex ratio of total population	0	0.002 ± 0.011	182	0.04	0.2	0.837
	Net migration rate (per 1000)	0	−0.006 ± 0.030	182	0.03	−0.1	0.852