SEX RATIO IN INDIA (2013-2014)
The continuous decline in numbers of girls in the age group 0-6 years compared with boys in several states has shocked demographers in India and has made policy makers sit up and take notice. A new report, Missing, released by the United Nations Population Fund on 20 October, maps the adverse sex ratio among children.
India's population stood at 1.03 billion on 1 March 2001, having risen 21% between 1991 and 2001. “What did not rise, but rather declined shockingly, was the sex ratio,” says the report.
The sex ratio, calculated as number of girls per 1000 boys in the 0-6 age group, declined from 945 girls per 1000 …
India's Population 2013
| Current Population of India in 2013 | 1,270,272,105 (1.27 billion) |
| Total Male Population in India | 655,875,026 (655.8 million) |
| Total Female Population in India | 614,397,079 (614.4 million) |
| Sex Ratio | 940 females per 1,000 males |
| Age structure | |
| 0 to 25 years | 50% of India's current population |
| Currently, there are about 51 births in India in a minute. | |
| India's Population in 2012 | 1.22 billion |
| India's Population in 2011 | 1.21 billion |
.More than 50% of India's current population is below the age of 25 and over 65% below the age of 35. About 72.2% of the population lives in some 638,000 villages and the rest 27.8% in about 5,480 towns and urban agglomerations. The birth rate (child births per 1,000 people per year) is 22.22 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) while death rate (deaths per 1000 individuals per year) is 6.4 deaths/1,000 population. Fertility rate is 2.72 children born/woman (NFHS-3, 2008) and Infant mortality rate is 30.15 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 estimated). India has the largest illiterate population in the world. The literacy rate of India as per 2011 Population Census is 74.04%, with male literacy rate at 82.14% and female at 65.46%. Kerala has the highest literacy rate at 93.9%, Lakshadweep (92.3%) is on the second position and Mizoram (91.6%) is on third.
| Serial No. | State/UT | Female sex ratio as per Census 2011 |
| 1 | Haryana | 877 |
| 2 | Delhi | 866 |
| 3 | Chandigarh | 818 |
| 4 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 775 |
| 5 | Daman and Diu | 618 |
After the Communists took power in 1949, Mao Zedong rejected traditional Malthusian arguments that population growth would eventually outrun food supply, and firmly regarded China's huge population as an asset, then with an annual birth rate of 3.7 percent. Without a state-mandated birth control program, China's sex ratio in the 60's and 70's remained normal.
"When a son is born,
Let him sleep on the bed,Clothe him with fine clothes,
And give him jade to play...
When a daughter is born,
Let her sleep on the ground,
Wrap her in common wrappings,
And give broken tiles to play..."
-SHIVAM KUSHWAHA
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