Every 2 seconds a child is born in India
India accounts for 20% of the world’s births and 25% of the world's child deaths
Fertility rate is 2.7; average life expectancy is 62 years; infant mortality is 53 deaths / 1,000 live births.
1 in 13 children dies before age 5; a child born in India is 10 times less likely to live past 28 days than one born in the U.S.; avoidable complications during pregnancy and childbirth kill approximately 67,000 Indian women annually
42.5% of children under 5 are underweight; 20% of the total population is undernourished
Only half the population has access to safe drinking water; less than a third to sanitation facilities; and only 44.5% of households have access to a toilet
2.31 million people are HIV+ (2008); 4 out of 10 of these are women
TB kills 1 person every 2 minutes, over 750 a day; about 1.98 million new TB cases a year (2008)
1.2% of HIV-infected people have active TB (2006)
* Note that data vary widely by state and district, with some indicators far worse than reflected in these national averages. |
