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TNN, Dec 8, 2023: The Times of India

Demographic trends, Delhi, 2018-22
From: Dec 8, 2023: The Times of India

Sex ratio in city dipped to 929 in ’22 from 932 in ’21

New Delhi : The sex ratio at birth in the Delhi dipped to 929 in 2022 from 932 a year earlier, according to a report published by the Delhi government.
The report also said the birth rate in Delhi increased from 13.1 per thousand population in 2021 to 14.2 in 2022, while the death rate declined from 8.3 per thousand population in 2021, when the Covid pandemic was at its peak, to 6.1 last year.


In 2018, there were 924 girls born for every 1,000 boys and 920 in 2019 before climbing to 933 in 2020 and 932 in 2021.


The report also revealed a significant jump in the average number of births per day in Delhi from 745 in 2021 to 823 in 2022. TNN

Average Number Of Births Per Day Up From 745 To 823

In Over 37% Of Cases, Mother In The Age Group Of 25-29 Yrs

Responding to the figures in the annual report on registration of births and deaths in Delhi for 2022, Arun Yadav, former director of hospital administration in the erstwhile North Delhi Municipal Corporation, said, “The sex ratio at birth data shows a marginal dip this year. But it is a one-year comparison. A better trend is visible if we look at the figures of the last five years.”


A Delhi government official similarly commented, “This is a very small decline in sex ratio. We cannot completely rule out people not opting for a second child if their first was a son, but such thinking is rare in Delhi, especially in urban areas.”


The report revealed a significant jump in the average number of births per day in Delhi from 745 in 2021 to 823 in 2022. Out of the total births registered, 1,55,670 (51.8%) were of males and 1,44,581 (48.1%) of females, while 99 births were deemed to belong to the ‘others’ category.


Explaining the rise in the birth rate, Yadav said, “This signifies multiple factors, such as the health infrastructure improving, availability of better vaccines and medicines and migration. A lot of people migrate from other states to Delhi because of better job prospects.” The death rate decreasing was obvious, Yadav added, given that 2021 was a pandemic year and this has severely hit the city’s health infrastructure. The report analysed the age of the mother at the time of delivery and determined that in the maximum cases (37.5%), the maternal age was 25-29 years, followed by 30.6% cases where the mother was 20-24 years and 29.7% where the mother was more than 29 years. It was also observed that in 2.2% of the births, the age of the mother was under 19 years.


The major causes of institutional deaths of babies in 2022 seemed to indicate that 14.9% of the mortalities could be attributed to septicaemia, 11.5% to pulmonary and heart diseases, 7.6% to shock, 4.4% due to liver diseases and 4.3% to tuberculosis. The Covid coronavirus caused 1.6% of the deaths. As obstetrician Manisha Ranjan explained, “Septicaemia is a problem mostly in the rural pockets of Delhi where prenatal care is neglected. In the urban areas, there are less chances of death due to septicaemia. Medical facilities like ultrasound can also pick up pulmonary circulation and other heart conditions in time for proper treatment.”


Of the total births, 2,82,389 (94%) took place in healthcare centres and only 17,961 (5.9%) were domiciliary in nature. A total of 1,86,905 (66.2%) of the institutional births took place in government hospitals. A majority of the births (89.2%) were urban while births in rural areas accounted for 10.8%, according to the Delhi government report.


A government official said, “Institutional deliveries took a severe hit during the Covid period, but the situation has normalised and hospital births are bound to increase.”


In the case of domiciliary birth events, the majority of births (60.6%) occurred with the assistance of relatives. In fact, untrained midwives assisted in 25.6% of the births at home. Only in 13% of the births were a doctor, nurse or trained midwife present.


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Bharti Jain & Alok K N Mishra, June 16, 2026: The Times of India

June 16, 2026: The Times of India

The population of Delhi, by region and district: 2011, 2026
From: June 16, 2026: The Times of India

The first phase of census in Delhi, which concluded on Sunday, has pegged its population at 2.3 crore. In Census 2011, the total population was listed at 1.7 crore. However, an exact comparison with the population returned by the houselisting operations phase of Census 2027 is not possible, as the latter is only a provisional figure. The final population shall be known only after the second phase of Census 2027, due in Feb next year. Bharti Jain & Alok KN Mishra bring you all the details.

New Delhi : The first phase of Census in Delhi, which concluded Sunday, has revealed that 2.3 crore people live in the capital, 37.5% more than the number (1.7 crore) in the last count conducted in 2011. North East Delhi, with 28.7 lakh residents, is the city’s most populated district while New Delhi has the fewest people at 2.4 lakh. 


The total number of households in the city has risen by nearly 60% to 55 lakh, from 34 lakh in 2011, showing a much higher rate of growth than the population. This points to a steady decline in the average family size, with nuclear families and single-person households becoming more common across the city, an official said. 


Comparisons with district-level data from Census 2011 are difficult because Delhi’s districts have increased from nine to 13, and boundaries have been redrawn. Officials said these population figures, from the houselisting phase, were provisional and the final numbers will be known after the enumeration phase, scheduled for Feb 2027.