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Question
Observe the following graph and answer the questions given below:
- What does the sex ratio of India indicate ?
- Since when has the sex ratio in India increased?
- What was the condition of sex ratio in India in 1961-71?
- What does sex ratio mean?
- What does the sex ratio of Brazil indicate?
- In which year did the women outnumber men in considerable amount in Brazil?
Solution
- The sex ratio graph of India indicates that the number of females per 1000 males is less than the number of males.
- The sex ratio of India started rising since 1991 and has not gone down since then.
- In the decade 1961-71, the sex ratio of India started going down and came to be about 920-25 females per 1000 males.
- Sex ratio is the ratio of the number of females present in a country to every 1000 males.
- The sex ratio of Brazil indicates that the number of females is much greater per 1000 males and it rose to about more than 1080 females per 1000 males.
- According to the graph in the year 1961 itself the number of females exceeded the number of males.
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