{"id":347988,"date":"2025-10-14T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=347988"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:35:51","slug":"indias-2023-vital-statistics-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-2023-vital-statistics-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report was published by the Office of the Registrar General of India (ORGI), which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">About India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/latest-news\/p346ue\/article70160246.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/BirthDeath.jpg?resize=389%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report\" width=\"389\" height=\"233\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>The <strong>Vital Statistics of India <\/strong>based on<strong> Civil Registration System (CRS) 2023 <\/strong>provides a nationwide picture of the <strong>country\u2019s birth and death registrations, institutional births, and sex ratio at birth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Released by:<\/strong> <strong>Registrar General of India (RGI)<\/strong> under the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal Context:\u00a0<\/strong>The Civil Registration System (CRS) operates under the <strong>Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969<\/strong>, mandating compulsory registration of every birth and death in India.\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The recently <strong>proposed amendments<\/strong> to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (effective from 2024) further emphasize <strong>digitization and integration<\/strong> of CRS data with other national databases to enhance real-time demographic tracking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Findings of the report<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 99.7954%;height: 281px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 229px\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.9315%;height: 94px\"><strong>Birth Statistics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3074%;height: 94px\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Total Births Registered (2023):<\/strong> <strong>2.52 crore (25.2 million)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Comparison with 2022:<\/strong> Decline of <strong>2.32 lakh<\/strong> births (2022 recorded approximately <strong>2.54 crore<\/strong> births).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registration Coverage:<\/strong> <strong>98.4%<\/strong> of births were registered in 2023.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Institutional Births:<\/strong> Accounted for <strong>74.7%<\/strong> of all registered births, indicating a continued trend toward hospital deliveries, though data from <strong>Sikkim<\/strong> was not included.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 178px\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.9315%;height: 10px\"><strong>State-wise Registration Efficiency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3074%;height: 10px\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>11 States\/UTs<\/strong> achieved more than <strong>90% registration within 21 days<\/strong> of birth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Five States<\/strong> reported <strong>80\u201390% timely registration<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourteen States<\/strong> showed <strong>50\u201380% registration<\/strong> within the prescribed time<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 300px\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.9315%;height: 157px\"><strong>Death Statistics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3074%;height: 157px\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Total Deaths Registered (2023):<\/strong> <strong>8.66 million (86.6 lakh)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2022 Figures:<\/strong> <strong>8.65 million (86.5 lakh),<\/strong> a marginal increase of <strong>0.1 lakh deaths<\/strong>, suggesting a relatively stable mortality rate post-pandemic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pandemic Context: <\/strong>The CRS data shows <strong>no significant spike in deaths<\/strong> during 2022 and 2023, contrasting with earlier pandemic years.\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>This demonstrates that the <strong>impact of COVID-19<\/strong> on overall mortality had largely stabilized by 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 360px\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.9315%;height: 10px\"><strong>Sex Ratio at Birth<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3074%;height: 10px\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lowest SRB States:<\/strong> <strong>Jharkhand has the lowest SRB<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Other states<\/strong> <strong>with<\/strong> <strong>lowest SRB states<\/strong>: Bihar, Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana and Mizoram.<\/li>\n<li>Notably, <strong>Bihar<\/strong> has consistently reported the lowest SRB since 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest SRB States: Arunachal Pradesh <\/strong>has the highest SRB.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Other states<\/strong> with lowest SRB are <strong>Nagaland, Goa, Ladakh and Tripura and Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 210px\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.9315%;height: 10px\"><strong>Institutional Births and Health Infrastructure<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3074%;height: 10px\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Institutional births<\/strong> accounted for <strong>74.7%<\/strong> of total registered births in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>However, the remaining <strong>25.3% non-institutional births<\/strong> suggest continued gaps in healthcare accessibility, particularly in rural and marginalized regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report was published by the Office of the Registrar General of India (ORGI), which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs. About India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report The Vital Statistics of India based on Civil Registration System (CRS) 2023 provides a nationwide picture of the country\u2019s birth and death&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-2023-vital-statistics-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s 2023 Vital Statistics Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-347988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347988","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}