Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163086 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/116
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality within different age groups and by disease category. The empirical results reiterate the importance of excess female mortality for women in Africa.
Subjects: 
missing women
mortality
gender
Africa
health
JEL: 
D13
I15
J12
J13
J16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-340-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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