India's sex ratio at Birth Improves

  • The Sample Registration System (SRS) 2018 data released recently highlighted early, though weak, signs of increasing fairness towards the girl child. In the 2016-2018 period, 1,112 male kids were born per 1,000 female births in India.
  • This situation, however, is still worse than the naturally occurring ratio between 1,030 and 1,050, and the global average of 1,068 as visible in the World Bank data.
  • Nevertheless, this is a slight improvement from 1,116 male births per 1,000 female births in the 2015-2017 period.
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