Child Mortality Rates
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Data check: Uttar Pradesh’s child mortality rate is as alarming as Afghanistan’s
Nearly 60 of every 1,000 children born in the state die before their fifth birthday.
Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com
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In India, 8.8 lakh children under five years – highest in the world – died in 2018, says UNICEF
The report, which was released on Wednesday, pointed out that malnutrition caused 69% of under-five deaths in India.
Scroll Staff
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India accounted for 24% of all newborn deaths in 2016, says United Nations report
The number of deaths among under-five children continued to decline globally, but was still significant at 5.6 million in 2016.
Scroll Staff
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Infant mortality rate drops 8% in 2016, Goa registers least deaths
Madhya Pradesh, with 47 deaths per 1,000 live births, and Assam and Odisha, with 44 each, had the worst figures.
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Infant mortality rate drops 8% in 2016, Goa registers least deaths
Madhya Pradesh, with 47 deaths per 1,000 live births, and Assam and Odisha, with 44 each, had the worst figures.
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Beyond Modi's Somalia jibe: 13 African nations have better infant mortality rates than India
States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party do worse than Africa’s safest countries for child birth.
Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com
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Rural medical staff in India make diarrhoea life-threatening
India’s strategies to reduce child mortality rates, among the world’s highest, need to be reassessed.
Samar Halarnkar, IndiaSpend.com