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Sex Ratio of India

Sex ratio is used to describe the number of females per 1000 of males. Sex ratio is a valuable source for finding the population of women in India and what is the ratio of women to that of men in India. In the Population Census of 2011 it was revealed that the population ratio in India 2011 is 940 females per 1000 of males. The Sex Ratio 2011 shows an upward trend from the census 2001 data. Census 2001 revealed that there were 933 females to that of 1000 males. Since decades India has seen a decrease in the sex ratio 2011, but since the last two of the decades there has been in slight increase in the sex ratio. Since the last five decades the sex ratio has been moving around 930 of females to that of 1000 of males.

The major cause of the decrease of the female birth ratio in India is considered to be the violent treatments meted out to the girl child at the time of the birth. The sex ratio of India was almost normal during the phase of the years of independence, but thereafter it started showing gradual signs of decrease. Though the sex ratio of India has gone through commendable signs of improvement in the past 10 years, there are still some states where the sex ratio is still low and is a cause of concern for the NGO organizations. One of the states which is showing a decreasing trend in the population of women 2011 and is a cause of concern is Haryana. The state of Haryana has the lowest rate of sex ratio in India and the figure shows a number of 877 of females to that of 1000 of males.



There are also states such as Puducherry and Kerala where the number of women is more than the number of men. Kerala houses a number of 1084 females to that of 1000 males. While Puducherry and Kerala are the only two states where the number of female is more than the number of men, there are also states in India like that of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra where the sex ratio 2011 is showing considerable signs of improvement. Some facts related to the sex ratio of India follows, the main cause of the decline of the sex ration in India is due to the biased attitude which is meted out to the women. The main cause of this gender bias is inadequate education. Pondicherry and Kerala houses the maximum number of female while the regions of Daman and Diu and Haryana have the lowest density of female population.
2011 Census 2001 Census
- India 940 623,724,248 586,469,174 933 532,223,090 496,514,346 7
1 Kerala 1084 16,021,290 17,366,387 1058 15,468,614 16,372,760 26
2 Puducherry 1038 610,485 633,979 1001 486,961 487,384 37
3 Tamil Nadu 995 36,158,871 35,980,087 986 31,400,909 31,004,770 9
4 Andhra Pradesh 992 42,509,881 42,155,652 978 38,527,413 37,682,594 14
5 Chhattisgarh 991 12,827,915 12,712,281 990 10,474,218 10,359,585 1
6 Manipur 987 1,369,764 1,351,992 978 1,161,952 1,131,944 9
7 Meghalaya 986 1,492,668 1,471,339 975 1,176,087 1,142,735 11
8 Orissa 978 21,201,678 20,745,680 972 18,660,570 18,144,090 6
9 Mizoram 975 552,339 538,675 938 459,109 429,464 37
10 Himachal Pradesh 974 3,473,892 3,382,617 970 3,087,940 2,989,960 4
11 Goa 968 740,711 717,012 960 687,248 660,420 8
12 Karnataka 968 31,057,742 30,072,962 964 26,898,918 25,951,644 4
13 Uttarakhand 963 5,154,178 4,962,574 964 4,325,924 4,163,425 -1
14 Tripura 961 1,871,867 1,799,165 950 1,642,225 1,556,978 11
15 Assam 954 15,954,927 15,214,345 932 13,777,037 12,878,491 22
16 West Bengal 947 46,927,389 44,420,347 934 41,465,985 38,710,212 13
17 Jharkhand 947 16,931,688 16,034,550 941 13,885,037 13,060,792 6
18 Maharashtra 946 58,361,397 54,011,575 922 50,400,596 46,478,031 24
19 Lakshadweep 946 33,106 31,323 947 31,131 29,519 -1
20 Nagaland 931 1,025,707 954,895 909 1,047,141 942,895 22
21 Madhya Pradesh 930 37,612,920 34,984,645 920 31,443,652 28,904,371 10
22 Rajasthan 926 35,620,086 33,000,926 922 29,420,011 27,087,177 4
23 Arunachal Pradesh 920 720,232 662,379 901 579,941 518,027 19
24 Gujarat 918 31,482,282 28,901,346 921 26,385,577 24,285,440 -3
25 Bihar 916 54,185,347 49,619,290 921 43,243,795 39,754,714 -5
26 Uttar Pradesh 908 104,596,415 94,985,062 898 87,565,369 78,632,552 10
27 Punjab 893 14,634,819 13,069,417 874 12,985,045 11,373,954 19
28 Sikkim 889 321,661 286,027 875 288,484 252,367 14
29 Jammu and Kashmir 883 6,665,561 5,883,365 900 5,360,926 4,782,774 -17
30 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 878 202,330 177,614 846 192,972 163,180 32
31 Haryana 877 13,505,130 11,847,951 861 11,363,953 9,780,611 16
32 Delhi 866 8,976,410 7,776,825 821 7,607,234 6,243,273 45
33 Chandigarh 818 580,282 474,404 773 506,938 393,697 45
34 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 775 193,178 149,675 811 121,666 98,824 -36
35 Daman and Diu 618 150,100 92,811 709 92,512 65,692 -91