Need of single target for single digit neonatal mortality and still birth rate

Abstract

India’s U5MR declined from 125 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 43 per 1,000 live births in 2015 (reduced by 66%) compared to the global rate of 90 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 42 per 1000 live births in 2015 (reduced by 54%). Similarly, infant mortality rate also decreased from 68 per 1000 live births in 2000 to 38 per 1000 live births in 2015 (44% reduction) and NMR from 40 per 1000 live births in 2000 to 25 per 1000 live births in 2015 (38% reduction).2 Out of all three, the NMR has shown least impressive fall. NMR accounts for two-thirds of IMR and 60% of U5MR.