Child Mortality Rates

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
· Jan 13, 2022 · 01:30 pm
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
· Oct 17, 2019 · 06:33 pm
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
· Oct 20, 2017 · 03:33 pm

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.

Scroll Staff
· Oct 01, 2017 · 12:56 pm
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.

Scroll Staff
· Oct 01, 2017 · 12:56 pm
Watch: How physics helped save millions of premature babies

When a different branch of science came to the help of the medical one.

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· Feb 16, 2017 · 08:00 pm

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Child Mortality Rates

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 · Jan 13, 2022 · 01:30 pm

In India, 8.8 lakh children under five years – highest in the world – died in 2018, says UNICEF

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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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States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party do worse than Africa’s safest countries for child birth.

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Rural medical staff in India make diarrhoea life-threatening

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