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{"chart":{"title":"Sex ratio at birth","subtitle":"The sex ratio at birth is measured as the number of newborn boys for every 100 newborn girls. Higher values indicate a much higher number of newborn boys than girls.","note":"It's considered that 105 is the biologically expected sex ratio at birth.","citation":"UN, World Population Prospects (2024)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sex-ratio-at-birth","selection":["United States","Kenya","Russia","South Korea","China","India"]},"columns":{"Sex ratio - Sex: all - Age: 0 - Variant: estimates":{"titleShort":"Sex ratio, at birth","titleLong":"Sex ratio, at birth - UN WPP","descriptionShort":"The number of male births per 100 female births. Biological birth ratios are slightly male-biased, with an expected ratio of 105 male births per 100 female births.","unit":"males per 100 females","timespan":"1950-2023","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":952780,"shortName":"sex_ratio__sex_all__age_0__variant_estimates","lastUpdated":"2024-07-12","citationShort":"UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data","citationLong":"UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “Sex ratio, at birth – UN WPP” [dataset]. United Nations, “World Population Prospects” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/952780.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2025-07-09"} |
