Health:
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- Diarrhoea kills more people in India than any other country in the world. More than 450,000 people die each year from this sickness.
- More than half of all children are malnourished
- Around 3 out of 5 babies are not delivered by skilled health personnel
- 50 Million people in India are on the brink of starvation (Outlook, Sept 17, 2001)
- A third of the world's malnourished children are in India. (The Times Of India, April 27, 2001)
- 25 pc of the world's blind are in India. (The Times of India, October 13, 2001) Out of total number of leprosy patients in the world, 90 per cent of them are confined to only 12 countries and India alone accounts for 61.1 per cent of world's recorded cases. (The Times Of India, February 14, 2001)
- A fifth of infants below five who die in India are victims of diarrhoea. Statistics show that if 30 per cent of those struck with diarrhoea in the country use ORS, 40,000 deaths can be prevented every year.(India Today, October 22, 2001)
- No. Of the children born in India every year: 27 mn
- No. Of Infants who do not survive to celebrate their first birthday: 2 mn
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India Facts and Stats 2012
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• India has a population of 1.2 billion.
• Life expectancy is 65 years.
• 63 out of 1000 babies will die before their fifth birthday.
• Around 37% of all adults cannot read or write.
• 12% of Indians have no access to clean water.
• Around 70% of the population has no access to sanitation facilities.
• Around half of babies are not delivered by skilled health personnel.
• Nearly 30% of the population lives below the poverty line.
• All of India’s 14 river systems are polluted.
• Despite being a major world economy, India is ranked 134 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index.
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