Missing women Sen methodology

Choropleth map of India by state: Missing women Sen methodology. India has 63 million 'missing women', the cumulative toll of sex-selective abortion, neglect, and violence.

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India has 63 million 'missing women', the cumulative toll of sex-selective abortion, neglect, and violence.
Policy implication
Amartya Sen's 'missing women' metric quantifies gender discrimination across the whole lifecycle, from birth onwards.
Census/SRS 2011Gendermissing womenSengender
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Data vintage. This map uses the 2011 Census, the latest published count by state and district. Populations and shares will have changed since.

Source: Census/SRS (2011). See the methodology for notes and limitations.

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