{"id":160333,"date":"2022-01-10T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=160333"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T10:45:03","slug":"nfhs-5-reading-nhfs-5-data-to-understand-indias-health-population-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfhs-5-reading-nhfs-5-data-to-understand-indias-health-population-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"NFHS-5: Reading NHFS-5 data to understand India\u2019s health, population outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The government of India recently released National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS-5) data. The data shows some promising trends and some areas of concern.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfhs-5-and-its-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>What are the findings of the National Family Health Survey 5?<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-does-nfhs-5-data-tell-us-about-state-of-women-empowerment-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What does NFHS-5 data tell us about state of women empowerment in India<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Population stabilization: <\/strong>The current levels of TFR set the stage for population stabilisation. Currently, the population growth rate is estimated to be 1.37% according to SRS(2018).<\/p>\n<p>This will continue to decline, but the population will continue to grow because of population momentum resulting from a large number of people entering the reproductive age group of 15-49 years. Thus, it can be said that the UN population division\u2019s estimate of population peaking at 165 crores around 2050 will be realized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sex ratio at birth: <\/strong>The SRB, as per the SRS report 2018, sex ratio at birth had declined from 906 in 2011 to 899 in 2018. Though NFHS-4 estimated it to be 919 in 2015\u201316, according to NFHS-5 estimates, SRB has increased to 929. This is encouraging. However, it has decreased in states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bihar and Jharkhand among others.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reading-sex-ratio-trends-in-nfhs-5-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading sex ratio trends in NFHS 5 data<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Stunted children: <\/strong>The proportion of stunted children below the age of five has marginally declined from 38.4% to 35.4%. This has been witnessed in all states except Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Telangana. Poor diet among children less than 23 months of age is the major cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Reading NHFS-5 data to understand India\u2019s health, population outlook&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0<strong>Indian Express\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>10th January 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The government of India recently released National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS-5) data. The data shows some promising trends and some areas of concern. Read here:\u00a0NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise What are the findings of the National Family Health Survey 5? Read here: What does NFHS-5 data tell us about state of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfhs-5-reading-nhfs-5-data-to-understand-indias-health-population-outlook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFHS-5: Reading NHFS-5 data to understand India\u2019s health, population outlook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-160333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700812178,"cached_date":1701174141},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}