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Health Status Indicators In India - 2011

Indicators are established to monitor the health status of a given population and to evaluate the number of individuals affected by a particular disease within a given period of time and the total number of cases of that disease. It is also used to evaluate health risks and performance of health systems. Health status provides a broad overview of morbidity and mortality patterns of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate, and Life Expectancy are the parameters for this indication.

Crude Birth Rate (CBR):

Decline in the Crude Birth Rate from 29.5 in 1991 to 22.5 in 2009.

The CBR is higher (24.1) in rural areas as compared to urban areas (18.3).

Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest CBR (28.7) and Goa, the lowest (13.5).

Crude Death Rate (CDR):

Crude death rate indicates the total number of deaths per year per 1,000 people.

Decline in Crude death Rate from 7.4 in 2008 to 7.3 in 2009.

The CDR is higher (7.8) in rural areas as compared to urban areas (5.8).

The death rate is highest (8.8) in Orissa and lowest in Nagaland (3.6).

Estimated Birth rate, Death rate, Natural Growth rate and Infant mortality rate, 2009

India/States/Union Territories	Birth Rate			Death rate			Natural Growth Rate			Infant Mortality Rate
	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
India	22.5	24.1	18.3	7.3	7.8	5.8	15.2	16.3	12.5	50	55	34
Bigger States
Bigger States
Andra Pradesh	18.3	18.8	17.0	7.6	8.5	5.5	10.6	10.3	11.5	49	54	35
Assam	23.6	24.9	15.9	8.4	8.8	5.9	15.2	16.1	10.1	61	64	37
Bihar	28.5	29.3	22.2	7.0	7.2	5.8	21.5	22.1	16.5	52	53	40
Chatisgarh	25.7	27.2	19.0	8.1	8.5	6.4	17.6	18.8	12.6	54	55	47
Delhi	18.1	19.9	17.8	4.4	4.8	4.3	13.8	15.0	13.5	33	40	31
Gujarat	22.3	23.8	19.9	6.9	7.7	5.6	15.4	16.1	14.3	48	55	33
Haryana	22.7	23.8	20.1	6.6	7.1	5.7	16.0	16.7	14.5	51	54	41
Jammu & Kashmir	18.6	19.9	13.7	5.7	6.0	4.7	12.8	13.9	9.0	45	48	34
Jharkhand	25.6	27.1	19.2	7.0	7.4	5.3	18.6	19.7	13.9	44	46	30
Karnataka	19.5	20.6	17.6	7.2	8.3	5.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	41	47	31
Kerala	14.7	14.6	14.9	6.8	6.8	6.5	7.9	7.8	8.3	12	12	11
Madhya Pradesh	27.7	29.7	20.8	8.5	9.2	6.1	19.2	20.5	14.8	67	72	45
Maharashtra	17.6	18.1	16.9	6.7	7.6	5.5	10.9	10.6	11.4	31	37	22
Orissa	21.0	21.9	15.7	8.8	9.2	6.8	12.2	12.7	8.9	65	68	46
Punjab	17.0	17.7	15.8	7.0	7.8	5.8	9.9	9.9	10.1	38	42	31
Rajasthan	27.2	28.4	23.2	6.6	6.7	6.1	20.6	21.7	17.1	59	65	35
Tamil Nadu	16.3	16.5	16.0	7.6	8.5	6.6	8.6	8.0	9.4	28	30	26
Uttar Pradesh	28.7	29.7	24.7	8.2	8.6	6.5	20.5	21.1	18.3	63	66	47
West Bengal	17.2	19.1	12.1	6.2	6.1	6.4	11.0	13.0	5.7	33	34	27
Smaller States
Smaller States
Arunachal Pradesh	21.1	22.6	14.9	6.1	7.0	2.5	15.0	15.6	12.4	32	35	14
Goa	13.5	13.0	13.9	6.7	8.2	5.8	6.8	4.8	8.1	11	11	10
Himachal Pradesh	17.2	17.8	11.7	7.2	7.4	4.9	10.0	10.4	6.8	45	46	28
Manipur	15.4	15.4	15.5	4.7	4.6	5.0	10.7	10.8	10.5	16	18	11
Meghalaya	24.4	26.4	15.0	8.1	8.6	5.7	16.3	17.9	9.4	59	61	40
Mizoram	17.6	21.7	13.2	4.5	5.0	4.1	13.0	16.7	9.2	36	45	19
Nagaland	17.2	17.4	16.3	3.6	3.7	3.1	13.6	13.7	13.2	26	27	23
Sikkim	18.1	18.4	16.0	5.7	6.0	3.9	12.3	12.4	12.1	34	36	21
Tripura	14.8	15.5	11.6	5.1	5.0	5.5	9.7	10.5	6.1	31	33	20
Uttarakand	19.7	20.6	16.3	6.5	6.9	5.2	13.2	13.7	11.0	41	44	27
Union Territories
Union Territories
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	16.3	16.5	16.1	4.1	4.4	3.6	12.2	12.0	12.5	27	31	20
Chandigarh	15.9	22.1	15.3	3.9	3.9	3.9	12.0	18.2	11.4	25	25	25
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	27.0	26.5	28.8	4.8	5.2	3.7	22.1	21.3	25.2	37	41	24
Damman & Diu	19.2	19.6	18.6	5.1	5.5	4.4	14.2	14.1	14.2	24	21	30
Lakshadweep	15.0	15.5	14.6	5.8	5.4	6.3	9.2	10.1	8.3	25	22	28
Puduchery	16.5	17.1	16.2	7.0	7.4	6.8	9.5	9.7	9.4	22	28	19
Note: Infant mortality rates for Smaller States and Union Territories are based on three-years period 2007-09.

Life Expectancy:

Life expectancy is defined as the average number of additional years a person could expect to live if current mortality trends were to continue for the rest of that person's life. It is a standard indicator for the level of socio-economic development.