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How many girls are born for every 1,000 boys in India?

918 girls per 1,000 boys

2022-24▲ 1 vs 2021-23

ORGI · released 20 May 2026 · next due by 19 Jul 2027

How many girls are born for every 1,000 boys in India?
Period	Value (girls per 1,000 boys)
2022-24	918
2021-23	917
2020-22	914
2019-21	913
2018-20	907
2017-19	904
2016-18	899
2015-17	896
2014-16	898
2013-15	900
2012-14	906
2011-13	909
2010-12	908

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India's sex ratio at birth was 918 girls per 1,000 boys in 2022-24 (three-year average, SRS), compared with 917 girls per 1,000 boys in 2021-23. Source: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024.

Cite as: Sample Registration System (SRS), Statistical Report 2024 (Registrar General of India), 2022-24

What this shows

India's sex ratio at birth was 918 girls per 1,000 boys in 2022-24, up from 917 in 2021-23 and from 896 in 2015-17, the lowest in this series.
It was higher in urban areas (928) than rural (914) in 2022-24.
Among bigger states, Chhattisgarh (978) and Kerala (974) were highest and Uttarakhand (872) lowest in 2022-24.

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Sample Registration System (SRS), Statistical Report 2024 (Registrar General of India), 2022-24

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Source and method

Source: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024
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
Released: 20 May 2026
Retrieved: 18 Oct 2026
Next due: by 19 Jul 2027
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Licence: GODL-India

What exactly is measured

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).

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Published by: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India (Ministry of Home Affairs)
Survey / report: 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)
Syllabus: GS-I · Society

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.

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May 20269182022-24, SRS Statistical Report 2024

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