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That is actually a bit scary considering that, this supposedly means that the women either give birth to more male than female or that women don't give birth at all inside UAE, or that females are not staying in UAE.

Catch my drift ?



> immigrants make up about 87.9% of the total population

The makeup of the native population probably isn't unbalanced-- rather, women aren't coming to the UAE to work.


No. This is driven by a huge reliance on foreign migrant labor, which is overwhelmingly male.


A lot of people in the gulf countries are temporary migrant workers, actual saudi population is closer to 50/50


Female infanticide.




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