Most districts of South Haryana have fared poorly on the sex ratio, final population figures of Census 2011 for the State released on Wednesday have revealed. The sex ratio has gone up from 861 in 2001 to 879 in 2011, but it is still less than the all-India sex ratio of 943. The figures for all districts have increased except two South Haryana districts of Mahendragarh where it has decreased by 23 points from 918 to 895 and Rewari from 899 to 898. Gurgaon (854), Sonepat (856) and Jhajjar (862) are the three districts with the lowest sex ratio. Mewat (907) and Fatehabad (902) on the other hand top the list with the highest sex ratio. The child sex ratio (0-6 years), which provides an insight into the survival of young girls, has registered a steep fall in Mahendragarh, Jhajjar, Rewari and Bhiwani. While Mahendragarh has registered a fall of 43 points from 818 to 775, Rewari has shown a fall of 24 points from 811 to 787. In Jhajjar it has decreased from 801 to 782 whereas in Bhiwani it has gone down from 841 to 832. Kurukshetra has recorded the maximum jump from 771 to 818. Interestingly, Gurgaon, which figures among the districts with the lowest sex ratio, has the highest literacy rate at 84.7 whereas Mewat, which has recorded the highest sex ratio, has the lowest literacy rate at 54.1. The percentage share of Scheduled Castes has increased to 20.2 per cent in 2011 compared to 19.3 per cent in 2001. Fatehabad has recorded maximum percentage of SC population at 30.2 per cent followed by Sirsa 29.9 per cent and Ambala 26.3 per cent. Mewat has the lowest SC population at 6.9 per cent, the report said. In the past decade, the urban population has increased by 44.6 per cent whereas the rural population has risen by only 9.8 per cent. The total population of Haryana is 2.53 crore -- an increase of 19.9 per cent from 2001.