INDIA: LIFE EXPECTANCY IN INDIA

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The Indian population has gained nearly a decade of life expectancy since 1990, but with vast inequalities between states, ranging from 66.8 years in Uttar Pradesh to 78.7 years in Karala for women, according to study published in The Lancet Journal.

The study is the first comprehensive analysis of the health of India's 1.34 billion citizens encompassing almost a fifth of the world's population.

It estimates the key drivers of ill health, disability, and premature death in all 29 states, many of which have population the size of large countries, and include people from over 2,000 different ethnic groups.

The researchers divided India's states into four groups according to their level of development or epidemiological transition, using the ratio of illness and premature death caused by communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases (CMNNDs) versus non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries an indicator.


"Individual state in India are different phases of epidemiological transition, and this has resulted in wide inequalities in the magnitude and progress against various diseases and their causes," said Lalit Dandona, from the Public Health Foundation of India in Gurugram.

"Rather then talking a more generic approach, these new estimates will be crucial to steering health policy to take account of specific health problem and risks in each state, and ultimately achiving the government's vision of assuring health for all," said Dandona, who led the study.

The Indian population has gain nearly a decade of life expectancy since 1990, rising to 66.9 years in men an 70.3 years in women.

However, there are wide inequalities between states, with life expectancy  for women ranging from 66.8 years in Uttar Pradesh to 78.7 years in Kerala.



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