About Number of Births and Deaths in India:
- India registered 52 crore births in 2023, around 2.32 lakh fewer than in 2022, according to the Vital Statistics of India based on the Civil Registration System (CRS) report for the year 2023.
- The report, compiled by the Registrar General of India (RGI), stated that 86.6 lakh deaths were registered in 2023, a marginal increase from 86.5 lakh deaths in 2022.
- There was no major spike in deaths in 2022 and 2023, despite the COVID-19 dashboard maintained by the Health Ministry showing that the total number of pandemic-induced deaths stood at 533,665 as on May 5, 2025.
- However, there was a significant rise in deaths in 2021, the second year of COVID-19 lockdown, which recorded an excess of 21 lakh deaths from the 2020 count.
- There were 81.2 lakh deaths in 2020 and 102.2 lakh in 2021.
- Jharkhand recorded the lowest sex ratio at birth at 899, followed by Bihar at 900, Telangana at 906, Maharashtra at 909, Gujarat at 910, Haryana at 911, and Mizoram at 911.
- The highest sex ratio was reported by Arunachal Pradesh at 1,085, followed by Nagaland at 1,007, Goa at 973, Ladakh and Tripura at 972, and Kerala at 967.
- The share of institutional births in total registered births is % in 2023. However, the report did not include information from Sikkim.
- Overall registration of births for the year 2023 stood at 98.4%.
- 11 States/Union Territories (UTs) achieved more than 90% registration of births within the prescribed time limit of 21 days.
- These States are Gujarat, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, and Punjab.
- Five States — Odisha, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh — reported 80-90% registration.
- In 14 States — Assam, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka, Bihar, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Meghalaya, and Uttar Pradesh, the registration stood at 50-80%.
