National Family Health Survey says women outnumber men
3 years ago

National Family Health Survey says women outnumber men

The Hindu  

The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey confirmed signs of a demographic shift in India. However, sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years only improved from 919 per 1,000 males in 2015-16 to 929 per 1,000, underscoring that boys, on average, continued to have better odds of survival than girls. Editorial | Measuring progress: On the lessons of National Family Health Survey-5 India is still poised to be the most populous country in the world with the current projection by the United Nations population division forecasting that India's population will peak around 1.6 to 1.8 billion from 2040-2050. The NFHS-5 survey work has been conducted in around 6.1 lakh sample households from 707 districts of the country; covering 724,115 women and 101,839 men to provide disaggregated estimates up to district level. State TFR-5 TFR-4 SR-5 SR-4 A&N 1.3 1.4 963 977 AP 1.7 1.8 1045 1021 Assam 1.9 2.2 1012 993 Bihar 3 3.4 1090 1062 D&N 1.8 2.1 827 813 Goa 1.3 1.7 1027 1018 Gujarat 1.9 2 965 950 HP 1.7 1.9 1040 1078 J&K 1.4 2 948 971 Karnataka 1.7 1.8 1034 979 Kerala 1.8 1.6 1121 1049 Lakshadweep 1.4 1.8 1187 1022 Ladakh 1.3 2.3 971 1000 Maharashtra 1.7 1.9 966 952 Meghalaya 2.9 3 1039 1005 Manipur 2.2 2.6 1066 1049 Mizoram 1.9 2.3 1018 1012 Nagaland 1.7 2.7 1007 968 Sikkim 1.1 1.2 990 942 Telangana 1.8 1.8 1049 1007 Tripura 1.7 1.7 1011 998 WB 1.6 1.8 1049 1007 Arunachal 1.82 2.1 997 958 Chattisgarh 1.82 2.2 1015 1019 Haryana 1.9 2.1 926 876 Jharkhand 2.3 2.6 1050 1002 MP 2 2.3 970 948 Odisha 1.8 2.1 1063 1036 Punjab 1.6 1.6 938 905 Rajasthan 2 2.4 1009 973 TN 1.8 1.7 1088 1033 UP 2.4 2.7 1017 995 Uttarakhand 1.9 2.1 1016 1015 Chandigarh 1.4 1.6 917 934 Delhi 1.6 1.8 913 854 Puduchery 1.5 1.7 1112 1068 TFR is total fertility rate, and SR is sex ratio.

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Firstpost  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Firstpost  

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Firstpost  

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India Today  

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