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Sex Ratio of India

Sex Ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 males. Sex Ratio is an important social indicator to measure the extent of prevailing equity between males and females at a given point of time. It is mainly the outcome of the interplay of sex differentials in mortality, sex selective migration, sex ratio at birth and at times the sex differential in population enumeration.

According to the Census of India, 2001, the sex ratio of India stands at 933. This is a marginal improvement from the 1991 Census, which had recorded 927 females for every 1000 males. At the 2001 Census, the sex ratio among the major States ranged from 861 in Haryana to 1058 in Kerala.




State / Union Territory (U.T.) India Sex Ratio
Jammu & Kashmir 900
Himachal Pradesh 970
Punjab 874
Chandigarh (U.T.) 773
Uttaranchal 964
Haryana 861
Delhi (U.T.) 821
Rajasthan 922
Uttar Pradesh 898
Bihar 921
Sikkim 875
Arunachal Pradesh 901
Nagaland 909
Manipur 978
Mizoram 938
Tripura 950
Meghalaya 975
Assam 932
West Bengal 934
Jharkhand 941
Orissa 972
Chhatisgarh 990
Madhya Pradesh 920
Gujarat 921
Daman & Diu ( U.T. ) 709
Dadra & Nagar Haveli (U.T. ) 811
Maharashtra 922
Andhra Pradesh 978
Karnataka 964
Goa 960
Lakshadweep (U.T.) 947
Kerala 1058
Tamil Nadu 986
Pondicherry (U.T.) 1001
Andaman & Nicobar Islands (U.T.) 846