Sex ratio at birth declines in 10 states: Sample Registration Survey

Sex ratio at birth declines in 10 states: Sample Registration Survey

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Category : National Published on: September 27 2022

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India’s latest population sample registration survey has shown improvements in child mortality and the average sex ratio at birth.
India’s average neonatal mortality (deaths within 30 days of birth) declined to 20 per 1,000 live births in 2020 from 22 in 2019 and 26 in 2014.
Infant mortality (deaths within the first year after birth) fell to 28 in 2020 from 30 in 2019 and 39 in 2014, while under-five mortality declined to 32 in 2020 from 35 in 2019 and 45 in 2014.
Six states have attained the SDG target of 12 for neonatal mortality — Kerala (4), Delhi (9), Tamil Nadu (9), Maharashtra (11), Jammu and Kashmir (12) and Punjab (12).
The national sex ratio at birth — the number of girls born per 1,000 boys — improved by three points from an average 904 in 2017-19 to 907 in (the partly overlapping period of) 2018-20.
Kerala has the highest sex ratio of 974 while Uttarakhand has the lowest at 844. In Bengal, the ratio has fallen from 944 to 936.

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