Patna,(BiharTimes): With a birth sex ratio of 751 Bihar is the worst performing state in India. It is followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 806 and Haryana, 853. Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Jharkhand are among the poor performers.

Latest government data on registration of births show India's birth sex ratio has fallen to 893 girls registered for every 1,000 boys born, much less than the overall child sex ratio of the country at 914.
India's birth sex ratio has fallen to 893 girls registered for every 1,000 boys born, which is much less than the overall child sex ratio of India at 914, latest government data on registration of births shows.

The data for 2009 shows a drop from the 903 girls registered per 1,000 boys in 2007.

However, there was remarkable improvement in birth registrations in Assam, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Nagaland than previous years.

Poverty does not seem to be the only reason for anti-girl bias as the record of Haryana suggests. On the other hand much poor Madhya Pradesh recorded a birth sex ratio of 938. Chhattisgarh and Odisha also had higher birth sex ratio than the national average.

According to the data the only state to register more new born girls than boys was Karnataka with a birth sex ratio of 1,011. Andhra Pradesh follows with a ratio of 985. The three north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Manipur and Mizoram had birth sex ratio of about 950.

The data revealed that around 67% of birth registrations take place in cities and just 23% in villages, though 64% of the country's population lives in rural area.