Lok Sabha Question No. 3331 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-05
Subject: Life Expectancy of Indian Population
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Nitesh Ganga Deb

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3331 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.08.2022

## LIFE EXPECTANCY OF INDIAN POPULATION

## 3331.  SHRI NITESH GANGA DEB:

Will the Minister of HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the life expectancy of Indian population has increased as per World Health Organisation (WHO) data released recently;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether WHO lauded the steps taken by India to improve the health indicators of its  people;
- (d) if so, the details of these health indicators; and
- (e) the States that improved their positions in health indicators as per WHO data?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR )

(a)  to  (e): As  per  the  recent  report  namely World Health Statistics 2022,  published  by  the World Health Organization (WHO), the Life Expectancy at Birth of Indian population for the year 2019 is 70.8 years, which has increased by 2.0 years as compared to Life Expectancy at Birth  for  the  year  2016.   Further,  as per  the  latest  report  titled  Sample  Registration  System (SRS) based Abridged Life Table 2015-19 published by the Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Government of India, the average life expectancy at birth for India has increased from 49.7 during 1970-75 to 69.7 during the year 2015-19 registering an increase of 20 years during this period.

Latest  Reports  of  the  Government  of  India  have  shown  that  several  States  have  made significant progress in many health indicators. The State-wise Life Expectancy at Birth for the years  2014-18  &  2015-19  as  published  by  the  Office  of  the  Registrar  General  &  Census Commissioner, Government of India is given at Annexure .

## Annexure

| India and bigger States/UTs   |   Life Expectancy at Birth (2015-19) | Life Expectancy at Birth (2014-18)   |
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| India *                       |                                 69.7 | 69.4                                 |
| Andhra Pradesh                |                                 70.3 | 70.0                                 |
| Assam                         |                                 67.5 | 66.9                                 |
| Bihar                         |                                 69.2 | 69.1                                 |
| Chhattisgarh                  |                                 65.3 | 65.2                                 |
| Delhi                         |                                 75.9 | 75.3                                 |
| Gujarat                       |                                 70.2 | 69.9                                 |
| Haryana                       |                                 69.9 | 69.8                                 |
| Himachal Pradesh              |                                 73.1 | 72.9                                 |
| Jammu &Kashmir                |                                 74.2 | 74.0 #                               |
| Jharkhand                     |                                 69.4 | 69.1                                 |
| Karnataka                     |                                 69.5 | 69.4                                 |
| Kerala                        |                                 75.2 | 75.3                                 |
| Madhya Pradesh                |                                 67   | 66.5                                 |
| Maharashtra                   |                                 72.7 | 72.5                                 |
| Odisha                        |                                 69.8 | 69.3                                 |
| Punjab                        |                                 72.8 | 72.7                                 |
| Rajasthan                     |                                 69   | 68.7                                 |
| Tamil Nadu                    |                                 72.6 | 72.1                                 |
| Telangana                     |                                 69.8 | 69.6                                 |
| Uttar Pradesh                 |                                 65.6 | 65.3                                 |
| Uttarakhand                   |                                 70.6 | 70.9                                 |
| West Bengal                   |                                 72.1 | 71.6                                 |

Source: SRS based Abridged Life Tables, 2014-18 and 2015-19.