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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Delhi records lowest death rate in country -Kounteya Sinha

Delhi records lowest death rate in country -Kounteya Sinha

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published Published on Nov 1, 2012   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2012
-The Times of India

Delhi has recorded the country's lowest death rate among major states.

Around 4.3 people die here per 1,000 population at any given time as against Odisha, which has highest death rate at 8.5.

In comparison, Maharashtra recorded a death rate of 6.3 (lower than the national average of 7.1), Tamil Nadu (7.4) and West Bengal (6.2).

The Registrar General of India's (RGI) latest death rate data sent to the Union health ministry has pointed to an interesting trend — 1.5 more men are dying in India as against women.

As against 7.8 men dying in the country, 6.3 women perish every year. Two more persons are dying in rural India as against the country's urban parts. While the death rate in rural India stands at 7.6, the corresponding figure is 5.7 when it comes to women.

Death rate in India is highest among rural men at 8.4. Rural women, however, seem to be better off with death rate being much lower at 7.3 compared to their male counterparts.

Nationally, seven people die at any given point of time per 1,000 population.

When it comes to highest number of deaths among males, it has been recorded in Assam (8.9), while the lowest is in Delhi (4.7).

In case of women, Odisha records the highest number of deaths at 8.2.

Overall in India, states which record a death rate higher that the national average are Uttar Pradesh (7.9), Andhra Pradesh (7.5), Tamil Nadu (7.4), Karnataka (7.1) and Chhattisgarh (7.9).

Women, however, are dying the most in Odisha (8.2), Madhya Pradesh (7.5), Chhattisgarh (7.2), Assam (7.1) and UP (7).

Women are dying the least in Delhi (3.9), Maharashtra (5.5), West Bengal and Haryana (5.6), Kerala (5.8) and Karnataka (5.9).

Mortality among rural males is tremendously high in some states like Chhattisgarh (9), Andhra Pradesh (9.6), Assam Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh at 9.4 each, and Tamil Nadu (9.2).

Earlier, the RGI had finalized data on life expectancy (LE) at birth which also pointed to how women in India are living longer than men.

The LE data says that an average Indian lived 4.6 years longer in 2008 compared to a decade earlier. An average Indian woman lived three years more than her male counterpart in 2008.

While the life expectancy at birth for women was 67.7 years, for men it stood at 64.6 years. This was an increase of 2.5 years and 1.8 years, respectively, when compared to the LE in 2002. Women have a longer life span than males in most of the major states.

In West Bengal and Rajasthan, for example, women lived 3.6 years longer than their male counterparts in 2008. In Tamil Nadu, women lived 3.8 years longer, while in Punjab it was 4.2 years, Maharashtra (4 years), Haryana (2.5 years), Gujarat (4.1 years), Himachal Pradesh (4.7 years), Karnataka (4.8 years) and Kerala (5.4 years).

Consequently, the majority of India's elderly are women.

The Sample Registration System (SRS), 2010, confirmed feminization of India's elderly saying that the percentage of women in the age group of 60 years and above is higher in 17 out of the 20 large states.

The Times of India, 31 October, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-31/india/34836723_1_death-rate-rural-women-kerala


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