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What share of births in India happen in a hospital or health facility?

90.6%
NFHS-6 (2023-24)▲ 2.0 vs NFHS-5 (2019-21)

NFHS · IIPS · released 29 May 2026

What share of births in India happen in a hospital or health facility?
PeriodValue (%)
NFHS-6 (2023-24)90.6
NFHS-5 (2019-21)88.6
NFHS-4 (2015-16)78.9

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90.6% of births in India took place in a health facility in NFHS-6 (2023-24), compared with 88.6% in NFHS-5 (2019-21) (National Family Health Survey). Source: IIPS and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) 2023-24 Fact Sheets; NFHS-5 (2019-21) and NFHS-4 (2015-16) India reports.

Cite as: National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6), 2023-24 (IIPS, Health Ministry)

What this shows

  • 90.6% of births took place in a health facility in NFHS-6 (2023-24), up from 88.6% in NFHS-5 (2019-21) and 78.9% in NFHS-4 (2015-16).
  • 58.6% of births were in a public facility in NFHS-6, a little below the 61.9% of NFHS-5. Institutional births were 95.2% in urban areas and 89.0% in rural areas.
  • 27.2% of births were by caesarean section in NFHS-6, up from 21.5%; in private facilities the share was 54.1%, in public facilities 16.9%.

The latest figure, as people NFHS-6 (2023-24)

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National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6), 2023-24 (IIPS, Health Ministry)

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Source and method

Source
IIPS and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) 2023-24 Fact Sheets; NFHS-5 (2019-21) and NFHS-4 (2015-16) India reports
Table
NFHS-6 India fact sheet, indicator 35 (institutional births), Total; NFHS-5 India report Table 8.13 (place of delivery, percentage delivered in a health facility, Total); NFHS-4 India report Table 8.13, same column
Released
29 May 2026
Retrieved
18 Oct 2026
Next due
NFHS-6 national report, date not announced
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What exactly is measured

Share of births in the five years before the survey that took place in a health facility, public or private. From the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), run for the Health Ministry by IIPS, Mumbai. NFHS-6 figures come from its fact sheets, which the survey calls provisional; NFHS-6 covers every state and UT except Manipur.

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Institutional births by state

Share of births in the five years before the survey that took place in a health facility, NFHS-6 (2023-24) fact sheets, which the survey calls provisional. Manipur was not covered in NFHS-6. Source: IIPS and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) 2023-24, India and State/UT Fact Sheets, NFHS-6 (2023-24).

Ranked

Ranked highest first · NFHS-6 (2023-24) · India 90.6%

  1. 1Lakshadweep100.0
  2. 2Puducherry99.8
  3. 3Kerala99.7
  4. 4Tamil Nadu99.7
  5. 5Goa99.6
  6. 6Andaman & Nicobar Islands99.5
  7. 7Telangana98.8
  8. 8Karnataka98.7
  9. 9Andhra Pradesh98.4
  10. 10Ladakh98.0
  11. 11Sikkim97.7
  12. 12Gujarat97.1
  13. 13Maharashtra96.4
  14. 14Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu96.3
  15. 15Haryana96.3
  16. 16Punjab96.1
  17. 17Chandigarh95.8
  18. 18West Bengal94.9
  19. 19Rajasthan94.1
  20. 20Odisha93.9
  21. 21Jammu & Kashmir93.6
  22. 22Delhi93.1
  23. 23Himachal Pradesh91.7
  24. 24Mizoram91.2
  25. 25Madhya Pradesh89.8
  26. 26Tripura89.1
  27. 27Uttarakhand88.9
  28. 28Arunachal Pradesh88.7
  29. 29Assam87.6
  30. 30Chhattisgarh86.9
  31. 31Uttar Pradesh85.9
  32. 32Bihar81.1
  33. 33Jharkhand77.4
  34. 34Meghalaya65.6
  35. 35Nagaland62.2

How are the states spread?

23 of 35 states fall between 90% and 100%. Each column counts the states in one band of institutional births; the dashed line is the all-India figure.

Hover a column for the states in it. Bands are equal widths of the state figures, NFHS-6 (2023-24).

History: every published version

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No figure in this series has been revised since we began recording on 18 Oct 2026.

  1. 3 periods, latest NFHS-6 (2023-24): 90.6% · first snapshotArchived sourceb8831c02efeb
Release notes (1)
  • 90.6%NFHS-6 (2023-24), fact sheets (provisional)

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