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Discuss the nature of regional variations in sex ratio in India. Stating reasons thereof.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Population Dynamics

India's national figures — a sex ratio of 943 females per 1,000 males and a child sex ratio (0–6) of 918, the lowest since 1961 (Census 2011) — are the average of two demographically different countries. The variation is not noise around a mean; it has a stable geography, and that geography is itself the…

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  • The pattern: a north-western deficit, a southern and north-eastern surplus
  • Three measures, three different geographies
  • Two paradoxes within the pattern
  • Reasons
  • Conclusion

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