Over a million of infants die in India before seeing their first birthday

As per Government Reports, the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) across the country had declined to 44 in 2011. The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) of a population is the number of children dying before celebrating their first birth day out of one thousand number of children born. 

Crude Birth Rate for the year 2011 has been put on record as 21.8 (births per thousand population) and the 2011 census declared India’s population as 1210.2 millions.  By simple arithmetic, one gets the number of infants dying in India are of the order of 1.2 millions.  By the same logic, the number of infant deaths in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are 0.32, 0.13, 0.12 and 0.09 millions and these comprise about 56% of total infant’s deaths in India.  If we add more progressive big states like Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, the share of infant deaths of these states is around three-fourth.

The number of deaths in case of smaller progressive states of Kerala, Delhi and Goa estimate 

to over 6000, 8000 and 200 respectively.  Although Kerala’s population is twice that of the 

Indian Capital, number of infant deaths in Kerala are three fourth of the Delhi’s where medical 

facilities are supposed to be at much higher level.