Fifteen million persons suffer from Diarrhea/ Dysentery in a period of fifteen days in India

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

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States	Diarrhea/ Dysentery	Population (2011)	Estimate of Persons suffered from Diarrhea/ Dysentery (2011)
Chhattisgarh	1107	25545198	282785
Madhya Pradesh	1256	72626809	912193
Uttar Pradesh	1187	199812341	2371772
Uttarakhand	675	10086292	68082
Odisha	836	41974218	350904
Rajasthan	647	68548437	443508
Bihar	2093	104099452	2178802
Jharkhand	429	32988134	141519
Assam	1310	31205576	408793
Total of Nine States	1221	586344507	7158360

Using population estimates from Census 2011, the number of people suffering/ suffered with Diarrhea/Dysentery during a period of fifteen days has been estimated around 7.16 millions in these nine states for the year 2011.  This is the average effected persons by Diarrhea/Dysentery in these states of India within duration of 15 days of the year.  Occurrence of Diarrhea/Dysentery in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states was to more than four and a half million persons in a period of fifteen days. If one assumes the average prevalence rate of these nine states as the prevalence rate in India, the average number of persons affected by this disease in India would be around 14.8 millions in a period of fifteen days during a year.