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Current Neonatal Mortality Rate In India 2018. Key findings According to the data released the national birth rate stood at 20 death rate. Malnutrition and mortality among children are the two faces of a single coin. In comparison the probability of dying after the first month and before reaching age 1 was. 13 rows Neonatal mortality rate of India fell gradually from 844 deaths per 1000 live births in 1970.
In urban areas the infant mortality rate stagnated at 23 deaths per 1000 births between 2016 and 2018. On May 10 2020 the Registrar General of India released data on the national birth rate death rate and infant mortality rate for the year 2018. Indeed with the early NMR of 22 per 1000 live births deaths in the first week alone account for 45 of total under-five deaths. Maternal Mortality RatioMMR of India for the period 2016-18 as per the latest report of the national Sample Registration system SRS data is 113100000 live births declining by 17 points from 130 100000 live births in 2014-16. The current neonatal and infant mortality rate in India is 29 per 1000 live births and 42 per 1000 live births respectively. Variations in mortality in the country are known at the macro level and now the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Child Mortality Collaborators1 have mapped neonatal and under-5 mortality rates from 2000 to 2017 for every district in India going down to geospatial grids as.
Indeed with the early NMR of 22 per 1000 live births deaths in the first week alone account for 45 of total under-five deaths.
Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life at an average global rate of 17 deaths per 1000 live births in 2019 down by 52 per cent from 37 deaths per 1000 in 1990. Thus there is a need to be more focused on the child health issues. In comparison the probability of dying after the first month and before reaching age 1 was. Indeed with the early NMR of 22 per 1000 live births deaths in the first week alone account for 45 of total under-five deaths. About 10 percent of these infant deaths are due to congenital heart. Given the infant and under-five child mortality rates of 40 and 49 per 1000 live births respectively 70 of total infant deaths and more than half of under-five deaths fall in the neonatal period.