Of the 184 countries which the report covers India ranks 31 with 254 neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births kept the worlds seventh largest economy below 153 countries who have better survival rates for their newborns. This note examines recent trends in infant mortality in India based on summary reports from the Sample Registration System.
About 10 percent of these infant deaths are due to congenital heart.
Current neonatal mortality rate in india 2018. 43 rows The infant mortality rate for India in 2019 was 30924 deaths per 1000 live births a 336. Indias neonatal mortality rate is 254 which ranks it at 12 among 52 lower middle-income countries in terms of risk for newborns. While this is better than Pakistan it is far behind Indias less prosperous neighbours like Sri Lanka Bangladesh Nepal and Bhutan.
41 rows Current Projects India Energy Dashboards India Energy Modelling Forum. 13 rows Neonatal mortality rate of India fell gradually from 844 deaths per 1000 live births in 1970. Maternal Mortality RatioMMR of India for the period 2016-18 as per the latest report of the national Sample Registration system SRS data is 113100000 live births declining by 17 points from 130 100000 live births in 2014-16.
This translates to 2500 additional mothers saved annually in 2018 as compared to 2016. The first 28 days of life the neonatal period is the most vulnerable time for a childs survival. Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life at an average global rate of 17 deaths per 1000 live births in 2019 down by 52 per cent from 37 deaths per 1000 in 1990.
In comparison the probability of dying after the first month and before reaching age 1 was. The current neonatal and infant mortality rate in India is 29 per 1000 live births and 42 per 1000 live births respectively. The last decade has seen a tremendous growth of neonatal intensive care.
Under 5 child mortality rate in India 7 times higher than average – UNICEF. SSC GD Result 2018. The current Neonatal Mortality Rate is 28 per 1000 live births.
Given the infant and under-five child mortality rates of 40 and 49 per 1000 live births respectively 70 of total infant deaths and more than half of under-five deaths fall in the neonatal period. Indeed with the early NMR of 22 per 1000 live births deaths in the first week alone account for 45 of total under-five deaths. India has reduced its infant mortality rate IMR by 42 over 11 years–from 57 per 1000 live births in 2006 to 33 in 2017 as per the.
Of the 184 countries which the report covers India ranks 31 with 254 neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births kept the worlds seventh largest economy below 153 countries who have better survival rates for their newborns. India maternal mortality rate for 2016 was 15000 a 506 decline from 2015. India is one of the worlds largest and most populous countries made up of more than 700 diverse districts.
Variations in mortality in the country are known at the macro level and now the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Child Mortality Collaborators1 have mapped neonatal and under-5 mortality rates from 2000 to 2017 for every district in India going down to geospatial grids as. Full size image From 2014 to 2018 the neonatal mortality rate was 245 per 1000 live births Table 1. This rate was highest in 2014 286 per 1000 and lowest in 2018 168 per 1000.
Malnutrition and mortality among children are the two faces of a single coin. Mortality among infants and under-5 children is also a major concern. In India the number of under-5 mortality rate and infant mortality rates are 49 and 42 respectively.
Thus there is a need to be more focused on the child health issues. The main objective of this paper. On May 10 2020 the Registrar General of India released data on the national birth rate death rate and infant mortality rate for the year 2018.
The data complied on these statistics is called as the Sample Registration System. Key findings According to the data released the national birth rate stood at 20 death rate. According to the National Family Health Survey the infant mortality rate IMR in India stands at 34 per 1000 live births.
About 10 percent of these infant deaths are due to congenital heart. This note examines recent trends in infant mortality in India based on summary reports from the Sample Registration System. We find evidence of slowdown pauses and reversals in infant mortality decline in large parts of India in 2017 and 2018.
In urban areas the infant mortality rate stagnated at 23 deaths per 1000 births between 2016 and 2018.