{
  "id": "hea-imr-062",
  "question": "At what rate do babies die before their first birthday in India?",
  "topic": "Health",
  "unit": "per 1,000 live births",
  "decimals": 0,
  "measures": "Infant mortality rate: deaths of children under one year per 1,000 live births in the year, from the Sample Registration System (SRS) of the Registrar General of India. The SRS has used its Census 2011-based sample since 2014.",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024",
    "url": "https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/47152",
    "table": "SRS Statistical Report 2024, Table 14 (annual estimates of IMR, India, total, 2019-24); 2014-18 from SRS Statistical Report 2019, Table 14 (2014-19)",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-20",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-18",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-07-19",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India (Ministry of Home Affairs)",
    "survey": "Sample Registration System (SRS), Statistical Report 2024",
    "frequency": "Annual SRS Statistical Report",
    "measures": "Deaths of children under one year per 1,000 live births in the year",
    "notes": [
      "The SRS is a dual record system: a resident part-time enumerator records births and deaths continuously, a full-time supervisor runs an independent half-yearly retrospective survey, and the two records are matched.",
      "The current sample of 8,853 sample units (villages and urban blocks) was drawn from the Census 2011 frame in 2014; the frame is replaced about every ten years.",
      "The SRS sample is designed to give reliable infant mortality estimates at the level of natural divisions within states."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "label": "National Health Policy 2017 target",
      "value": 28,
      "by": "2019",
      "source": {
        "name": "Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Health Policy 2017, para 2.4.1 (copy hosted by NHSRC)",
        "url": "https://www.nhsrcindia.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/National%20Health%20Policy%202017%20%28English%29%20.pdf"
      }
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2014",
      "start": "2014",
      "end": "2014",
      "value": 39
    },
    {
      "period": "2015",
      "start": "2015",
      "end": "2015",
      "value": 37
    },
    {
      "period": "2016",
      "start": "2016",
      "end": "2016",
      "value": 34
    },
    {
      "period": "2017",
      "start": "2017",
      "end": "2017",
      "value": 33
    },
    {
      "period": "2018",
      "start": "2018",
      "end": "2018",
      "value": 32
    },
    {
      "period": "2019",
      "start": "2019",
      "end": "2019",
      "value": 30
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
      "start": "2020",
      "end": "2020",
      "value": 28
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "start": "2021",
      "end": "2021",
      "value": 27
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "start": "2022",
      "end": "2022",
      "value": 26
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "start": "2023",
      "end": "2023",
      "value": 25
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "start": "2024",
      "end": "2024",
      "value": 24
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/hea-imr-062/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/hea-imr-062/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/hea-imr-062/versions.csv"
}