India does better for its children, improves their chance of survival

Overall life expectancy has declined compared to 10 years ago though

Children in India are less likely to die young now than a few years ago, despite the health upheavals in the years before Covid-19 hit the country in January 2020.

Key indicators of child mortality improved at a faster rate than before despite the pandemic, though a fair distance is yet to be covered.

In the 10 years since 2012, the rate declined by 44.1 per cent in India, shows an analysis of new multi-nation data from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The improvement is actually marginally better than the pre-pandemic decade ending 2019. India did better than Brazil