why is the infant mortality rate higher for males than females in some countries ?

Answer 1

some of the reasons for the high male mortality rate, that are explain in the links below are
is problems at birth.
problems with birth and ill

Actually the female mortality is higher world wide than male. This is because the Eastern areas of the world put such a high emphasis on male children (also strict child limits) that females are discard or abandon or aborted

The study was published in the British Medical Journal.

The researchers looked at more than 8,000 births - half male, half female - all of which were first babies from mothers who went into lab our naturally at full term.
"We have known for a long time that a high proportion of boys die during labour, are stillborn, or, unfortunately, die within a month of delivery.
"Something like 52% of all babies are boys, but the rate of perinatal mortality is higher."


A cultural preference for boys and China's ruthlessly enforced childbearing restrictions have resulted in the wholesale destruction of girl babies through gross neglect, abandonment, infanticide and, in recent years, the targeted abortion of female fetuses.Citing statistics from a Chinese sampling in 1995, Layely noted that among 4-year-olds there are 115 boys for every 100 girls; among 3-year-olds, 119 boys per 100 girls; among 2-year-olds, 121 boys; among 1-year-olds, 121 boys; among children less than a year old, 116 boys per 100 girls.

Currently the gender ratio is 1.05; that is, for every 100 men, there are 105 women living. In other parts of the word, this is not the case. In fact, Sen (1990) claims that overall there are only about 98 women to 100 men worldwide, and in some countries, the number can below 90.