Indian sex composition is heavily skewed in the favour
of males.
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.
