Sex ratio

Q.  Which state has highest sex ratio of the India’s 60-plus population in the rural areas?
- Published on 14 Apr 16

a. Gujarat
b. Assam
c. Orissa
d. Maharashtra

ANSWER: Gujarat
 
  • Among rural areas, the highest sex ratio (1,289) was reported in Gujarat and in urban Assam it was recorded as 1,476.
  • The overall proportion of the elderly in India, home to the world’s largest youth population, too has gone up. An estimated 87.6 million aged people live in India, about 69 per cent of them in rural parts.
  • In 1981, the share of the elderly population per 1,000 in rural India was 68, which went up to 88 in 2011. In urban India, the elderly share was recorded at 54 per 1,000 in 1981, going up to 81 in the 2011 Census. But about 50 per cent of the elderly population is totally economically dependent on others.

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