Telling Numbers | Under-5 mortality in India: study flags disparity among states | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling Numbers | Under-5 mortality in India: study flags disparity among states | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: May 16, 2019 9:32:01 am

Telling Numbers | Under-5 mortality in India: study flags disparity among states

The analysis found that although most under-five deaths were due to preterm complications, preventable infectious diseases featured prominently as causes of death in higher-mortality states.

While India reduced annual mortality among children under five from 2.5 million in 2000 (90.5 per 1,000 live births) to 1.2 million in 2015 (out of 2.5 million live births, or 47.8 per 1,000), it was still the highest in the world.

A new study in The Lancet Global Health has flagged the deaths among children under five in India, which was higher than in any other country in 2015. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health also found large disparities in the child mortality rate between richer and poorer states.