Question

Observe the following graph and answer the questions given below:

1. What does the sex ratio of India indicate ?
2. Since when has the sex ratio in India increased?
3. What was the condition of sex ratio in India in 1961-71?
4. What does sex ratio mean?
5. What does the sex ratio of Brazil indicate?
6. In which year did the women outnumber men in considerable amount in Brazil?

Answer 1

1. The sex ratio graph of India indicates that the number of females per 1000 males is less than the number of males.
2. The sex ratio of India started rising since 1991 and has not gone down since then.
3. In the decade 1961-71, the sex ratio of India started going down and came to be about 920-25 females per 1000 males.
4. Sex ratio is the ratio of the number of females present in a country to every 1000 males.
5. 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.
6. According to the graph in the year 1961 itself the number of females exceeded the number of males.