UP spends least on health, ill health a major concern

Per capita public expenditure on health is the lowest in Uttar Pradesh

With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatar’s–which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenya’s; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, peanut-growing west-African nation.

With 75 districts, 814 blocks and 97,607 villages, UP is larger, by population, than all but five countries. It holds the key to political dominion over India, but, in terms of