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NATIONAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT <strong>2001</strong> INDICATORS ON HEALTH ATTAINMENT & DEMOGRAPHY 241Estimated Sex Ratio at BirthTABLE 5.24(Females per thousand males)States/UTs 1981 1991Rural Urban Rural UrbanAndhra Pradesh 980 980 971 971Arunachal Pradesh 980 952 990 917Assam — — 962 935Bihar 990 971 952 935Goa 962 952 971 935Gujarat 962 935 943 901Haryana 926 943 885 862Himachal Pradesh 952 952 917 877Jammu & Kashmir 952 909 — —Karnataka 971 962 952 952Kerala 971 943 952 943Madhya Pradesh 980 990 980 935Maharashtra 943 952 943 917Manipur 990 1,000 980 952Meghalaya 980 962 990 971Mizoram 962 1,000 971 962Nagaland 980 971 1,010 980Orissa 980 962 971 971Punjab 952 935 855 847Rajasthan 990 980 935 909Sikkim 962 1,020 952 806Tamil Nadu 962 990 952 952Tripura 943 962 962 962Uttar Pradesh 971 980 943 926West Bengal 971 971 971 962Andaman & Nicobar Is. 962 1,053 1,000 971Chandigarh 901 935 909 917Dadra & Nagar Haveli 1,010 971 990 990Daman & Diu — — — —Delhi 952 943 909 909Lakshadweep 917 926 980 943Pondicherry 971 971 971 943All India 971 962 943 926Note 1 Sex Ratio at birth is defined as females per thousand males at birth.2 Census not held in Assam in 1981 and Jammu & Kashmir in 1991.Source Census based estimates as estimated by S Sudha and S Irudaya Rajan; Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991: SexSelection Abortions and Female Infanticide, <strong>Development</strong> and Change, Vol 30, No.3, July (1999), page 612.

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