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Life expectancy up by 50 pct since 1960, says report

Updated - 3/9/2010 - indianexpress.com.

Life expectancy in India has increased by nearly 50 per cent since 1960, says India Health Report 2010 by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indicus Analytics.

“This increase is substantially better than sub-Saharan Africa. However, India’s much poorer neighbour, Bangladesh, has clearly made substantially more impressive gains than India in the past two decades,” notes the report, released by Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday.

As for Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), it is seen that “India has made great strides in improving its IMR over the last decade (reaching about 54 per 1,000 live births in 2007)”. However, “although India’s record is impressive in comparison to sub-Saharan Africa, it is substantially lower than that of other regions. India’s performance is not only substantially inferior to countries such as China, but it has also been outperformed by Bangladesh”.

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