About Seven Million Persons are having Asthma in India

One Large Scale Annual Health Survey has been conducted in the year 2010-11 for nine States namely, Bihar, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and Assam.  Fact Sheets for the same were released shortly.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Disease Asthma in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons. 

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States	Asthma/Chronic Respiratory Disease	Population (2011)	Estimate of Persons Diagnosed for Asthma (2011)
Chhattisgarh	441	25540196	112693
Madhya Pradesh	372	72597565	270045
Uttar Pradesh	565	199581477	1128344
Uttarakhand	550	10116752	55676
Odisha	535	41947358	224526
Rajasthan	300	68621012	205869
Bihar	914	103804637	948767
Jharkhund	232	32966238	76347
Assam	594	31169272	185259
Total of Nine States	547	586344507	3207528

Using population provisional estimates from Census 2011, the number of people diagnosed for Asthma in these nine states has been estimated as about 3.2 millions for the year 2011.  This is the minimal (lower bound) of the effected persons by Asthma in these states of India.  On working backwards, one can say that Asthma prevalence in these states is about 0.55% on the average.    Minimum number of persons having Asthma in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh states were 2.35 million and it is over 73% of the total Asthmatic people of these nine states.

If one assumes the average prevalence rate of these nine states as the prevalence rate in India, the minimum number of persons effected by this disease in India would be about 7 millions.