Over Eleven Million Persons are suffering from Arthritis 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 Arthritis in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons. 

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States	Arthritis	Population (2011)	Estimate of Persons Diagnosed for Arthritis (2011)
Chhattisgarh	603	25540196	153961
Madhya Pradesh	674	72597565	489064
Uttar Pradesh	996	199581477	1988609
Uttarakhand	1358	10116752	137417
Odisha	258	41947358	108390
Rajasthan	287	68621012	197246
Bihar	1529	103804637	1586745
Jharkhund	754	32966238	248511
Assam	1348	31169272	420112
Total of Nine States	909	586344507	5330054

Using population provisional estimates from Census 2011, the number of people diagnosed for Arthritis in these nine states has been estimated as about 5.3 millions for the year 2011.  This is the minimal (lower bound) of the effected persons by Arthritis in these nine states of India.  On working backwards, one can say that Arthritis prevalence in these states is about 0.91% on the average.    Minimum number of persons having Arthritis in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh states were over 4 million and it is over 76% of the total people who are suffering from Arthritis in 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 over 11 millions.