![]() Tamil Nadu stood sixth from the bottom on the list with its ratio falling from 939 to 840 in the same time frame, after hitting an all-time low of 818 in 2015. In contrast, Karnataka has dropped steadily from an SRB of 1,004 in 2006 to 896 in 2016. In India, Chhattisgarh was the only large state to record a higher SRB of 980, while Kerala - which has always fared well on this chart - followed with 954 in 2016. Hence, the natural SRB is pegged at 952, or 105 males for every 100 females. ![]() ![]() Nature provides that the number of newborn males slightly outnumber newborn females because, as they grow up, men are at a higher risk of dying due to sex differentials in natural death rates as well as higher risk from external causes such as violence, war casualties, accidents, and injuries. According to The World Health Organisation, in the human species the ratio between males and females at birth is slightly biased towards the former. ![]()
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