BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE, INFANT MORTALITY RATE
A summary of vital rates is provided by Table D
2, with more detailed trends in Table D 3. During the last decade the birth rate
in West Bengal fell from 28.2 to 20.5 per thousand, implying a decline (from
28.2 to 20.5) nearly double that
observed in India as a whole .[During the same period the decline in the state's death rate (from 8.9 to 6.8 per thousand) too has been substantial, nearly one and a
half times the national average. Rural and urban birth rates for West Bengal
stood at 22.9 and 14.3 per 1000
respectively in 1998-99, markedly lower than the corresponding national averages
of 27.6 and 20.8 per thousand. Rural and urban death rates in West Bengal in
1998-99 were 6.8 and 7.2 respectively, the all-India figures being 9.4 and 6.3.
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TableD
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Vital Rates : West Bengal and India : 1990-2001
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Year |
Birth Rate |
Death Rate |
Infant Mortality Rate |
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Bengal |
India |
West
Bengal |
India |
West
Bengal |
India |
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1990 |
28.2 |
30.2 |
8.4 |
9.7 |
63 |
80 |
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1996 |
22.8 |
27.5 |
7.8 |
9.0 |
55 |
72 |
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2000 |
20.7 |
25.8 |
7.0 |
8.5 |
51 |
68 |
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2001 |
20.5 |
25.4 |
6.8 |
8.4 |
51 |
66 |
Source : Govt. of West Bengal (GOWB), West Bengal Human Development Report 2004 (WBHDR), Table 1.2.
1991
and 1998-99
Birth rates per 1000 population Death Rates per 1000
population
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Rural |
Urban |
Total |
Rural |
Urban |
Total |
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1991 |
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W.B. |
30.3 |
18.5 |
27.0 |
8.9 |
6.7 |
8.3 |
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India |
30.9 |
24.3 |
29.5 |
10.6 |
7.1 |
9.8 |
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1998-99 |
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W. B. |
22.9 |
14.3 |
20.7 |
6.8 |
7.2 |
7.1 |
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India |
27.6 |
20.8 |
26.1 |
9.4 |
6.3 |
8.7 |
Source : GOWB, Family
Welfare Statistics At A Glance 1995, Table 9 and Second National Family
Health Survey (NFHS 2) - India (1998-99), Tables 4.3 and 6.2