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States ranked by child sex ratio

Child sex ratio counts girls per 1000 boys aged zero to six, and is tracked separately from the overall sex ratio because it reflects birth patterns and early childhood survival rather than adult migration. A falling child sex ratio is one of the more closely watched indicators from each census.

States ranked by child sex ratio according to the Census of India 2011
# State or UT States ranked by child … Population
1 Arunachal Pradesh 972 1,383,727
2 Meghalaya 970 2,966,889
3 Mizoram 970 1,097,206
4 Chhattisgarh 969 25,545,198
5 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 968 380,581
6 Puducherry 967 1,247,953
7 Kerala 964 33,406,061
8 Assam 962 31,205,576
9 Sikkim 957 610,577
10 Tripura 957 3,673,917
11 West Bengal 956 91,276,115
12 Jharkhand 948 32,988,134
13 Karnataka 948 61,095,297
14 Nagaland 943 1,978,502
15 Tamil Nadu 943 72,147,030
16 Goa 942 1,458,545
17 Odisha 941 41,974,218
18 Andhra Pradesh 939 84,580,777
19 Bihar 935 104,099,452
20 Telangana 932 35,193,978
21 Manipur 930 2,855,794
22 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 926 343,709
23 Madhya Pradesh 918 72,626,809
24 Lakshadweep 911 64,473
25 Himachal Pradesh 909 6,864,602
26 Daman and Diu 904 243,247
27 Uttar Pradesh 902 199,812,341
28 Maharashtra 894 112,374,333
29 Gujarat 890 60,439,692
30 Uttarakhand 890 10,086,292
31 Rajasthan 888 68,548,437
32 Chandigarh 880 1,055,450
33 Delhi 871 16,787,941
34 Jammu and Kashmir 862 12,541,302
35 Punjab 846 27,743,338
36 Haryana 834 25,351,462

Questions about this ranking

Arunachal Pradesh, at 972 females per 1000 males aged 0-6 according to the Census of India 2011.

Meghalaya, at 970 females per 1000 males aged 0-6.

All figures come from the Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Nothing here is estimated or projected forward.

They describe 2011. Populations have grown since, unevenly, and many states have created new districts by splitting old ones, so a district in this table may no longer exist with the same boundary.

Union territories range from single cities to island groups, so they sit at both extremes of most of these tables. The census counts them alongside states, which is why they appear here.

Source: Census of India 2011. Figures are reproduced as published. Read more on our about the data page, and see the glossary for what these measures mean.