Born too soon: decade of action on preterm birth
<p>An estimated 13.4 million babies were born pre-term in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications, according to this new report by United Nations agencies and partners.</p>
Infant mortality
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Improving maternal and newborn health and survival and reducing stillbirth: progress report 2023
<p>Global progress in reducing deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies has flatlined for eight years due to decreasing investments in maternal and newborn health, according to this new report from the United Nations (UN).</p>
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Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020
<p>The overall maternal mortality rate dropped by 34.3 per cent over a 20-year period -- from 339 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 223 maternal deaths in 2020, according to this report by the World Health Organization and other UN agencies.</p>
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Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2022
<p>An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to this latest estimates by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).</p>
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Never forgotten: the situation of stillbirth around the globe
In 2021, an estimated 1.9 million babies were stillborn at 28 weeks of pregnancy or later, with a global stillbirth rate of 13.9 stillbirths per 1,000 total births. These losses, however, are not experienced
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Handbook of statistics on Indian states
<p>Availability of adequate and comparable data at one place for different States on various dimensions – economic, social and demographic – can aid in conducting relevant research on sub-national
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World population prospects 2022
<p>15 November 2022 is predicted to be the day that the global population reaches eight billion. The projection is revealed in this UN’s World Population Prospects 2022 report, which also shows that India is on course to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023.</p>
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Motherhood in childhood: the untold story
<p>Nearly a third of all women in developing countries start having children at the age of 19 or younger, and nearly half of first births to adolescents, are to children or girls aged 17 or under, reveals this new research by the UNFPA.</p>
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Powering healthcare- Nigeria market assessment and roadmap
<p>The rationale behind the report was the following:</p> <ul> <li> Data on Health Facility Electrification (HFE) is sparse, outdated, and/or stored in multiple locations</li> <li> There is
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National Family Health Survey (NFHS- 5), 2019–21: India report
This report comprises of detailed information on key domains of population, health and family welfare and associated domains like characteristics of the population; fertility; family planning; infant and