{
  "id": "soc-srb-057",
  "question": "How many girls are born for every 1,000 boys in India?",
  "topic": "Society",
  "unit": "girls per 1,000 boys",
  "decimals": 0,
  "measures": "Sex ratio at birth: girls born per 1,000 boys, from the Sample Registration System of the Registrar General of India. Each figure is a three-year average (2022-24 covers births in 2022, 2023 and 2024).",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024",
    "url": "https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/47152",
    "table": "SRS Statistical Report 2024, Table 16 (Sex ratio at birth by residence, India, total); 2010-12 to 2017-19 from the 2016–2020 reports, same table",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-20",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-18",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-07-19",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India (Ministry of Home Affairs)",
    "survey": "Sample Registration System (SRS), Statistical Report 2024",
    "frequency": "Annual SRS Statistical Report",
    "measures": "Girls born per 1,000 boys, as a three-year moving average (2022-24 covers births in 2022, 2023 and 2024)",
    "notes": [
      "The SRS is a dual record system: a resident part-time enumerator records births and deaths continuously, a full-time supervisor runs an independent half-yearly retrospective survey, and the two records are matched.",
      "The current sample of 8,853 sample units (villages and urban blocks) was drawn from the Census 2011 frame in 2014; the frame is replaced about every ten years.",
      "Sex ratio at birth (girls per 1,000 boys at birth) is not the same as the overall sex ratio (females per 1,000 males in the population) or the child sex ratio (girls per 1,000 boys aged 0–6) from the Census."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2010-12",
      "start": "2010",
      "end": "2012",
      "value": 908
    },
    {
      "period": "2011-13",
      "start": "2011",
      "end": "2013",
      "value": 909
    },
    {
      "period": "2012-14",
      "start": "2012",
      "end": "2014",
      "value": 906
    },
    {
      "period": "2013-15",
      "start": "2013",
      "end": "2015",
      "value": 900
    },
    {
      "period": "2014-16",
      "start": "2014",
      "end": "2016",
      "value": 898
    },
    {
      "period": "2015-17",
      "start": "2015",
      "end": "2017",
      "value": 896
    },
    {
      "period": "2016-18",
      "start": "2016",
      "end": "2018",
      "value": 899
    },
    {
      "period": "2017-19",
      "start": "2017",
      "end": "2019",
      "value": 904
    },
    {
      "period": "2018-20",
      "start": "2018",
      "end": "2020",
      "value": 907
    },
    {
      "period": "2019-21",
      "start": "2019",
      "end": "2021",
      "value": 913
    },
    {
      "period": "2020-22",
      "start": "2020",
      "end": "2022",
      "value": 914
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-23",
      "start": "2021",
      "end": "2023",
      "value": 917
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-24",
      "start": "2022",
      "end": "2024",
      "value": 918
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/soc-srb-057/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/soc-srb-057/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/soc-srb-057/versions.csv"
}