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Madhya Pradesh, which has long had the dubious distinction of being a ‘
bimaru’ state (a reference to its sick economy and poor development indicators) is making a push to salvage its reputation. Improving nutritional outcomes has been identified as a priority, and, to that end, the state recently announced a new nutrition policy.
Madhya Pradesh, which has long had the dubious distinction of being a ‘
bimaru’ state (a reference to its sick economy and poor development indicators) is making a push to salvage its reputation. Improving nutritional outcomes has been identified as a priority, and, to that end, the state recently announced a new nutrition policy.
This note examines recent trends in infant mortality in India, based on summary reports from the Sample Registration System. We find evidence of slowdown, pauses, and reversals in infant mortality decline in large parts of India in 2017 and 2018. In urban areas, the infant mortality rate stagnated at 23 deaths per 1,000 births between 2016 and 2018. Worse, overall infant mortality increased in the poorer states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. One possible interpretation of these findings is that the demonetisation experiment in late 2016 and the subsequent economic slowdown had an adverse effect on child health.
In a historical perspective, the last few decades have been a time of rapid health improvements in developing countries (Deaton 2013; Hill 1991; Rosling et al 2019). In India, for instance, 129 out of every 1,000 infants died before reaching their first birthday in 1971, when the Sample Registration System (SRS) started monitoring mortality (