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NFHS 5 findings
January 13 , 2021
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- The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has set up a technical expert group to examine the adverse findings from the National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS 5).
- It released the Factsheets of key indicators on population, reproductive and child health, family welfare, nutrition.
- The first phase of NFHS 5 covers the 22 states and Union Territories in the period of 2019-20.
- Four rounds of NFHS (1992–93, 1998–99, 2005–06 and 2015–16) have been successfully completed in India.
- All the rounds of NFHS have been conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai.
Key Findings
- The replacement level of fertility (2.1) has been achieved in 19 out of the 22 States/UTs.
- Only 3 states Manipur (2.2), Meghalaya (2.9) and Bihar (3.0) have Total Fertility Rate above the replacement levels now.
- Overall Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) is the highest in Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal (74%).
- More than two-third of children are fully immunized in all the States and UTs except Nagaland, Meghalaya and Assam.
- Sikkim, Assam, Goa and Jammu & Kashmir witnessed a steep decline in Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR).
- Meghalaya, Manipur and Andaman & Nicobar Island reported increase in all the three categories of child mortality – NMR, IMR and U5MR.
- Among all the surveyed states and UTs, Bihar displayed the highest prevalence in Infant and child mortality in all three categories, while the lowest death rate was reported in Kerala.
- Infant and child mortality declined in most of the Indian states.
- Majority of the states are in normal sex ratio of 952 or above.
- It is below 900 in Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Dadra Nagar Haveli & Diu Daman.
- The children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than the previous generation.
- Though India displayed improvement in child malnutrition between NFHS 3 (2005-06) and NFHS 4 (2015-16), the nation has now taken U-turn for the worse in terms of malnutrition among children.
- The percentage of men with high or very high blood glucose is highest in Kerala (27%) followed by Goa (24%).
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