Sex ratio in Delhi up from 920 to 933

NEW DELHI: The national capital has seen the sex ratio go up from 920 females per 1,000 males in 2019 to 933 females per 1,000 males in 2020, Delhi government said on Thursday. The government also said in a statement that the infant mortality rate in Delhi dipped from 24.2 per 1,000 in 2019 to 20.4 in 2020.
Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia ascribed the reduction in infant mortality to changes in health infrastructure and better access to health facilities to all citizens. Sisodia said that the rise in the sex ratio rate demonstrated increased social awareness. He said that our culture was becoming more educated and appreciating the importance of the girl child.
Maternal mortality rate in Delhi has also decreased from 0.55 per thousand births in 2019 to 0.54 per thousand births in 2020, the deputy CM stated.
In Delhi, the birth rate fell from 18.35 per thousand in 2019 to 14.85 per thousand in 2020. In 2020, a total of 3,01,645 births were registered compared with 3,65,868 in 2019. The death rate in the capital has decreased from 7.29 per thousand in 2019 to 7.03 per thousand in 2020.