Female gendercide is predominantly prevalent in South Asian and East Asian countries, particularly in India and China, which are two of the world's most populous countries. It is a complex issue in which poverty, culturally ingrained preferences for a male offspring, societal problems like dowry, government family-restriction policies, and lack of education – lead to a devaluation of the girl-child in people’s minds and therefore the cavalier decision to terminate a life. Now, due to immigration, female gendercide is also being seen in cultural communities in the UK, Canada, and the United States. The fact that countries outside of Asia are demonstrating a propensity to abort females at high rates, shows that no culture or country is immune to gender discrimination in the form of female gendercide. Rather, this is a human global problem.