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What is sex ratio? What is its importance?

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Sex ratio is the ratio of the number of women in the society to every thousand men. It is depicted as number of females per thousand men. An apt sex ratio should be 1000/ 1000.  There has been an alarming decline in the sex ratio because of reckless female foeticides. Abalanced sex ratio is a must of the healthy society.

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