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India links: Foreign policy, India-Japan, NGOs, oil demand, gender relations and more
Published 5 Sep 2014   Follow @drajendram

To add another complication, India's sex ratio -- the number of females per 1,000 males -- is one of the lowest in the world. As of 2014, there were 940 Indian women for every 1,000 Indian men. That number might not seem shocking, but consider the size of the country: the ratio translates to 37 million more men than women, which is more than the population of Canada.



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