Sex Ratio of India: A Regional Perspective

Abstract

Among the various elements of population composition, sex composition, age composition and economic composition hold a prime place for population geographers. The separate data for males and females are important for various types of planning and for the analysis of other demographic characteristics such as reproductive potential, marital status, work-force, migration pattern, growth of population, and the socio-economic relationship. Infact, it is an important demographic indicator to measure the extent of prevailing equality between males and females in a society at a given point of time. Sex ratio in India is defined as number of female per 1000 males in the population. The ratio in the country had always remained unfavourable to females. It may be seen that the sex ratio in India is much  lower as compared to Russia, Indonesia, USA, China, Nigeria and Japan. The sex ratio of the country as per census 2001 was 933. In the census 2011 the ratio slightly increased 933 to 940.According to the census 2001 the Female Child Sex Ratio of India was 927 per1000 Male Child. In the last census 2011 its decreases and stands on 914.