Children born in Urban India continue to have a much higher chance to survive in the first year than those born in Indian countryside.
The latest data about the number of infant mortality (IMR) for 2019 released by the census office shows poor quality of maternal and child health services in rural areas and limited access to this.
IMR Urban India is 20 (20 babies under one year dying of every 1,000 baby born) compared to 34 in rural areas, showing stagnation in an effort to bridge the rural-urban gap.
If there is, the gap has widened slightly in five years to 2019.
While all countries have narrowed the gap in the IMR between rural and urban areas, the difference continues to be very high in Assam and MP, where rural areas contributed 86% and 72% of their total population -Masing.
Odisha, Rajasthan and Gujarat have shown the most extraordinary increase in bridging gaps in the IMR between rural and urban areas.
Rural Odisha has the second highest IMR of 68 in this country in 2009 while the urban IMR was 46.
It was steadily cut the gap to the one digit and in 2019, rural IMR and urban respectively were 39 and 30.
Similarly, Gujarat had also been Significantly reducing gaps in the past decade.
In 2009, Rural IMR and urban respectively were 55 and 33, which narrowed to 29 and 18 in 2019.
The gap between Rural IMR and urban (65 and 35) was the highest in Rajasthan in 2009, and the Rural IMR was between Highest in India.
It not only dropped the rural IMR, it also narrowed the gap between rural and urban areas (38 and 25) in 2019, a significant increase from the place starting.
Rural MP continues to have the highest IMR in this country in 2009 (72), 2014 (57) and 2019 (50).
Although the IMR 57 in 2014 was a major increase in 2009 in 2009, in 2019 the rate of improvement had slowed because the rural IMR dropped to only 50 in 2019.
In addition, the rural gap-urban remains the highest after Assam, which also showed a little progress in bridge the gap.
Some states have reduced rural-urban gap in infant survival to one digit.
The gap remained in two digits and almost unchanged between 2014 and 2019 above, where 78% population lived in rural areas.
While the better urban IMR in a country shows what is possible with the availability of better health care, even urban IMR from many countries is higher than rural IMR from better countries, is an indication of how far these countries are Gotta go.