Statsguru: India's NFHS highlights some known, and some unknown facts

India’s fifth National Family Health Survey underlines important —some known, some unknown — facts about public health, especially, women’s well-being in the country. The findings of the survey pertain to the reference period 2019-20.

We look at distribution of 10 large and 10 small states of India across eight health and socioeconomic indicators in four chart that plot one indicator against another.

For instance, chart 1 plots states across two parameters: Proportion of children who got adequate diet in the age of 6-23 months, and the proportion of children in the age of 6-59 months who are iron deficient. It