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In the Soviet era, ultrasound diagnostics had been generally unavailable in West Asia within the Caucasus region. However, inferential evidence, including the increasing access to ultrasound diagnostic and newly increasing SRBs for higher-parity births, strongly suggests that these countries are subject to the same syndrome observed in so much of East Asia and South Asia. Since the end of the Cold War this area has arisen as another front in the global war against baby girls [32, 33]. Between the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the year 2000, SRBs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia all rose from about 105 to about 120. More recent vital registration system data indicate that SRBs in the Caucasus have declined, but only slightly: to 116 in Armenia and Azerbaijan (as of 2008) and to 112 in Georgia (as of 2004).

Fig. 6. Reported child (age 0-6 years) sex ratio in India (reaggregated subdistricts), 2001. Source: Guilmoto and Oliveau [10]. Reprinted with permission.