Sex ratio
Q. Which of the following is/are true?
1) India has more elderly women than men.
2) However the sex ratio of the country’s 60-plus population declined in 2011 from 2001.- Published on 14 Apr 16a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2
ANSWER: Only 1
- Women outlast their husbands by an average of seven years.
- India has more elderly women than men with the sex ratio of the country’s 60-plus population recorded at 1,033 women per 1,000 men in the 2011 Census, up from 1,029 in the 2001 census.
- The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has put out these figures in the latest National Sample Survey report on ‘Health in India’, which notes that the share of 60-plus women is higher than that of men in both rural and urban areas.
