Over 900 births and 300 deaths in Delhi every day

Delhi registers over 900 births and nearly 300 people die in the national capital every day, revealed an annual report Tuesday.

The annual report on births and deaths in Delhi-2008 was released by Delhi government's Finance, Planning and Urban Development Minster A.K. Walia Tuesday.

'The report revealed that average number of births per day in Delhi were 915 in 2008 as against 882 in 2007 and the average number of deaths per day in Delhi was 295 in 2008 as against 277 in 2007,' an official statement said.

The report revealed that in nearly 50 percent cases of birth, the mother belonged to the 20-24 age group.

'Age group of the mother at the time of delivery was analyzed and it was observed that in nearly 50 percent cases, it was 20-24 years and in 36.23 percent cases the age group was 25-29 years,' the statement said.

'The report also observes an inverse relationship between the level of education of the mother and birth order. As per the report higher the birth order lesser will be the level of educational attainment,' it added.

The report also marks an increase in sex ration in Delhi.

'There is a remarkable increase in sex ratio in Delhi from 820 in 2005 and 848 per 1,000 in 2007 to 1,004 in 2008. This is because of number of registrations of female birth which increased due to implementation of 'Laadli' scheme,' Walia said.

'There have been 19,000 more female births registered in Delhi compared to last year. Numbers of total female births registered were increased from 1.48 lakhs in 2007 to 1.67 lakhs in 2008,' the statement said.

'Total number of births registered in Delhi during 2008 are 3.34 lakhs against 3.22 lakhs in 2007. Of the total birth registered, 166,583 (49.89 percent) were male and 167,325 (50.11 percent) were female,' it said.

'Out of total births in Delhi during 2008, only 4.55 percent were registered in rural Delhi. Of the total births, 2.45 lakhs (73.45 percent) were institutional births and among them 61.25 percent were in government hospitals,' said Walia adding that among the non-institutional births 56.59 percent were female.

Meanwhile, about 1.08 lakhs deaths were registered in Delhi in 2008 as compared to 1.01 lakhs in 2007.

'Of the total deaths registered, 62.23 percent were male and 36.77 percent were female. In 2008, about 53 percent of the total deaths were reported by the medical institutions and the remaining 47 percent were non-institutional deaths,' the statement said.

'About 16 percent of the total deaths were due to disease of pulmonary circulation and other forms of heart disease, 8.15 percent due to septicemia, 6.98 percent due to diabetics mellitus and 3.74 percent due to T.B,' it added.

'Out of total deaths registered during the year as many as 6,138 were infant deaths. The infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births was 18.38 during 2008 as against 25.44 during 2007. The maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live births was 0.20 in 2008 while it was 0.26 in 2007. The death rate per 1,000 of population worked out to 6.29 during 2008 as against 6.07 in 2007,' the statement further said.link