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States ranked by sex ratio

Sex ratio counts females per 1000 males. A figure below 1000 means women are outnumbered. Migration moves this number as much as births do, so states that draw in male workers sit lower than their birth patterns alone would suggest.

States ranked by sex ratio according to the Census of India 2011
# State or UT States ranked by sex ra… Population
1 Kerala 1,084 33,406,061
2 Puducherry 1,037 1,247,953
3 Tamil Nadu 996 72,147,030
4 Andhra Pradesh 993 84,580,777
5 Chhattisgarh 991 25,545,198
6 Meghalaya 989 2,966,889
7 Telangana 988 35,193,978
8 Manipur 985 2,855,794
9 Odisha 979 41,974,218
10 Mizoram 976 1,097,206
11 Goa 973 1,458,545
12 Karnataka 973 61,095,297
13 Himachal Pradesh 972 6,864,602
14 Uttarakhand 963 10,086,292
15 Tripura 960 3,673,917
16 Assam 958 31,205,576
17 West Bengal 950 91,276,115
18 Jharkhand 948 32,988,134
19 Lakshadweep 946 64,473
20 Arunachal Pradesh 938 1,383,727
21 Madhya Pradesh 931 72,626,809
22 Nagaland 931 1,978,502
23 Maharashtra 929 112,374,333
24 Rajasthan 928 68,548,437
25 Gujarat 919 60,439,692
26 Bihar 918 104,099,452
27 Uttar Pradesh 912 199,812,341
28 Punjab 895 27,743,338
29 Sikkim 890 610,577
30 Jammu and Kashmir 889 12,541,302
31 Haryana 879 25,351,462
32 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 876 380,581
33 Delhi 868 16,787,941
34 Chandigarh 818 1,055,450
35 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 774 343,709
36 Daman and Diu 618 243,247

Questions about this ranking

Kerala, at 1,084 females per 1000 males according to the Census of India 2011.

Puducherry, at 1,037 females per 1000 males.

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.