Sex ratio in India - embarrassing to be honest

摘要

The human population exhibits definitivecharacteristics in terms of its sex composition. In most parts of the globe lessfemales are born, yet females, as compared to their male counterparts, typically survive longer to exceed the malesnumerically at any given point of time.However, this demographic attributeeludes many countries like India wheremales decisively outnumber the femalesand women constitute less than half ofthe total population. Sex preference forchildren in traditional consciousness andmodern viewpoint, is common in manydeveloping and developed countries, including India. This is more prominent invarious parts of Asia and North Africa.