Uttar Pradesh population have life time scenario of having more males than females with very little exception

The 2011 census data, released just recently, gives the population for each succeeding age year from age 0 to 100 plus.  Quite a few persons have not indicated their age and these are about 0.8 percent in the UP population. This proportion is double in case of UP than in case of All-India.  One may easily assume that such Cases may be of higher ages. The age distribution for various states has been given by place of residence (rural and urban) and by sex as below.

 

Sex Ratios by Age and by Residence

Age Intervals	Total	Rural	Urban
0	897	902	877
1-6	903	907	887
7-15	891	895	878
16-60	922	928	901
61-70	945	955	902
70-80	931	938	902
80-90	926	916	962
90-99	976	966	1019
100 plus	970	974	959
Not Stated	892	900	878
Senior Citizens	928	938	897
Total	912	918	894

Usually, discrimination against girls is measured by the child sex ratio, that is, the difference in the populations of the two sexes from 0-6. Among infants less than a year old, boys out number girls by about 1.9 lakh. But by six years, the difference increases to nearly 15.8 lakh. This is also described as a sex ratio of about 902 girls per 1,000 boys. The story doesn’t end here. There is an appalling drop in girls’ population after that.

Census 2011 data has revealed a huge difference in the number of girls and boys in the under-15 age group. The difference in the population of boys and girls aged seven to 15 years is nearly 2.6 million. That’s a sex ratio of 891:1,000 for this age group.

While female foeticide is responsible for the skewed sex ratio at birth, the difference among living children is driven by gross neglect of the girl child as well as girls are also given much more domestic work.   Limited resources in families, as found in a very large number of poor families in UP, sets up the context for this fatal discrimination. If resources are limited, sons get preferential treatment over daughters. All measures for special incentives for the girl child — cash transfers, nutritional supplements, family incentives — have failed to make a dent in the prevailing mentality of son-preference and discrimination against girl children.

In case of Uttar Pradesh, only for urban very senior citizens up to 90 years, females are more than males.  Such phenomenon can be due to better medical facilities in urban areas than in rural areas and males comparatively have lower life spans than females and thus very senior citizens have sex ratio more than thousand.  This can be seen as an exception to the basic rule that in Uttar Pradesh that males out number females in all ages.