Women outnumber men in 5th National Family Health Survey

The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) shows the signs of a demographic shift in India.
The NFHS-5 showed that the proportion of women exceeded men. There were 1,020 women for 1,000 men as per NFHS-5 report.
This has happened for the first time since the inaugural NFHS was launched in 1992.
In the NFHS-4 launched in 2015-16, there were 991 women for every 1,000 men.
However, the sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years showed marginal improved from 919 per 1,000 males in 2015-16 to 929 per 1,000 in 2019-20.
The NFHS-5 report is based on survey work conducted in around 6.1 lakh sample households from 707 districts (as on March, 2017).
NFHS-5 provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state and union territory.