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Kerala's MMR Status 2024
January 20 , 2025
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- Kerala’s maternal mortality ratio, currently the lowest in the country at 19 per one lakh live births is now climbing steadily.
- The State, which used to have an average of 5-5.5 lakh live births annually, has now hit an all-time low of 3,93,231 births.
- Except during 2020-21, the State has consistently maintained a firm grip over maternal mortality.
- From an average of 5.5 lakh annual births since the 1980s, the graph went below the five-lakh mark for the first time in 2016, when 4,96,262 live births were recorded.
- Since 2018, the figure has been plummeting steadily, never going above the five-lakh mark again.
- The last published VSR (2021) recorded the total number of live births in Kerala as 4,19,767.
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