According to the 2011 census, women account for 586.47 million in absolute numbers and represent 48.46% of the total population of the country.
Sex Ratio
The sex ratio of last birth is biased against females and is lower by 9.5 percentage points in 2015-16 in comparison to other countries. And this has remained stagnant in the last decade.
most North-Eastern states (with the exception of Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh) and Goa occupy the North-East quadrant, indicating that they are the best performers at all points of time.
Kerala is the next best performer. The lagging performers are Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar ....
