Infant Mortality Rate declines in India
Infant mortality has been dropping significantly in India, said Unicef and likely to achieve the target rate by 2015. The current infant mortality rate (IMR) of India is 40 per 1000 live births as per Sample Registration System (SRS) in 2013 and Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) was at 52 in SRS 2012. And it would likely to below 39 per 1000 live births by 2015. In India every year, 1.34 million children die before completing five years, of which 7,48,000 die within the first month of their life. More than 2,000 newborn die each day in India. Further measures should be taken by the government of India to achieve the target of below 39 per 1000 live births.