Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India

Gupta, Aashish

doi:10.1080/00324728.2022.2112746

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“…We follow the approach described in Gupta ( 16) and Gupta and Sudharsanan (17) to estimate age-specific mortality rates from the NFHS. We use standard demographic approaches (76,77) to estimate mortality under age 2 from the birth history module of NFHS-5. For mortality at age two and above, we use questions on deaths in the household since January 2017 to estimate deaths and person-years lived by those who did not survive.…”

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Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020

Gupta,

Hathi,

Banaji

et al. 2024

Sci. Adv.

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Global population health during the COVID-19 pandemic is poorly understood because of weak mortality monitoring in low- and middle-income countries. High-quality survey data on 765,180 individuals, representative of one-fourth of India’s population, uncover patterns missed by incomplete vital statistics and disease surveillance. Compared to 2019, life expectancy at birth was 2.6 years lower and mortality was 17% higher in 2020, implying 1.19 million excess deaths in 2020. Life expectancy declines in India were larger and had a younger age profile than in high-income countries. Increases in mortality were greater than expected based on observed seroprevalence and international infection fatality rates, most prominently among the youngest and older age groups. In contrast to global patterns, females in India experienced a life expectancy decline that was 1 year larger than losses for males. Marginalized social groups experienced greater declines than the most privileged social group. These findings uncover large and unequal mortality impacts during the pandemic in the world’s most populous country.

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Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020

Gupta,

Hathi,

Banaji

et al. 2024

Sci. Adv.

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“…We follow the approach described in Gupta 2021 ( 16) and Gupta and Sudharsanan 2022 (17) to estimate age-specific mortality rates from the NFHS. We use standard demographic approaches (76,77) to estimate mortality under age two from the birth history module of NFHS-5. For mortality at age two and above, we use questions on deaths in the household since January 2017 to estimate deaths and person-years lived by those who did not survive.…”

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Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020

Gupta¹,

Hathi²,

Banaji³

et al. 2023

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The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is uncertain. We are the first to use high-quality empirical data from India, which has a large population and where pandemic surveillance was particularly poor, to examine changes in life expectancy and estimate excess deaths during the pandemic. We analyze data from the households interviewed in 2021 in India's fifth Demographic and Health Survey, a subsample representative of about one-quarter of India's population. In this subsample, life expectancy at birth declined by 2.6 years between 2019 and 2020, a reduction that is larger than the loss in life expectancy observed in any high-income country (HIC) in the same period. Mortality was 17.0\% higher in the pandemic months of 2020 compared to 2019. Applied nationally, this level of excess mortality implies 1.18 million excess deaths in 2020. Compared to HICs, mortality increases in younger ages in India contributed more to the decrease in life expectancy than older ages. Furthermore, the pandemic exacerbated gender and social inequalities. In contrast to global patterns, females in India experienced larger life expectancy losses than males. As compared to a life expectancy loss of 1.5 years for high caste Hindus, who are privileged in Indian society, Muslims lost 5.9 years, Scheduled Tribes lost 4.4 years, and Scheduled Castes lost 2.6 years. These findings uncover large and unequal mortality shocks during the pandemic in the world’s most populous country.

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Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India

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Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020

Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020

Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020

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