Question: Recently Deputy Chief Minister, Govt. of Delhi, Manish Sisodia released “Annual report on “Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi- 2015” prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics. According to this what is the average number of births per day in Delhi?
(a) 1050
(b) 1040
(c) 1025
(d) 1030
Ans: (c)
Related facts:
- On 3 August 2016 Deputy Chief Minister, Govt. of Delhi, Manish Sisodia released “Annual report on “Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi- 2015” prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics.
- The Sex Ratio (Number of females per thousand males) at birth increased from 895 in the year 2013 to 896 in the year 2014.
- Institutional births have increased from 3.02 lakhs (81.75%) in 2013 to 3.10 lakhs (82.83%) in the year 2014.
- The birth rate worked out to 20.50 per thousand Populations during 2015 as against 20.88 for the year 2014
- Moreover, about 66% of institutional births were occurred in the Government hospitals and 34% in private hospitals. Average number of birth per day in Delhi works out to 1024 in the year 2014 as compared to 1014 in 2013.
- The Infant Mortality Rate per thousand live births has reduced from 22.37 in 2013 to 21.66 in 2014.
- The Death Rate per thousand of population worked out to 6.82 during 2015 as against 6.77 in 2014.
- Maternal mortality rate per thousand live births was 0.37 in 2015 while it was 0.43 in 2014.
- Average number of births per day in Delhi worked out to 1025 in 2015 as against 1024 in 2014.
- Of the total births registered 197080 (52.69%) were male and 176932 (47.31%) female.
- The average number of deaths per day in Delhi worked out to 341 in the year 2015 as against 332 during 2014.
- 62.70% of the total deaths were reported by the medical institutions and the remaining 37.30% were domiciliary deaths during 2015.
- The analysis of major causes of institutional deaths during 2015 as per ICD 10 (i.e. International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision) reflect that 8.31% deaths were due to septicemia, 4.98% due to hypertensive, 4.66% due to tuberculosis, 4.28% due to shock (n.e.c.) and 3.84% due to disease of pulmonary circulation and other forms of heart diseases. The remaining MCCD deaths were due to other causes.
Reference:
http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/fbf461804db49ab688388860df6178b3/final+annual+report+2015.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&lmod=1166129787&CACHEID=fbf461804db49ab688388860df6178b3
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/1.25-lakh-deaths-in-delhi-in-2015-62-pc-at-hospitals-report/1/731502.html
http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/doit_publicity/Information+and+Publicity/Press+Release/Chief+Minister/Deputy+Chief+Minister+Releases+Annual+Report+on+Registration+of+Births+and+Deaths+in+Delhi2014+,+27th+August+2015