For India’s children, the journey from a crib to grave is indeed very short. A Save the Children study has reported that over three lakh babies die on their first-day and overall, 876,200 babies die, annually.

The numbers look grim for Indian mothers as well. According to the Government of India, the country records 56,000 maternal deaths, every year. This is the highest number of maternal deaths in the world, according to the study. Statistically, India stands at the top of the 10 countries that attribute 65 percent of newborn deaths in the world. The infant mortality rate (IMR) in India is 44 per 1000 live births as per the government’s 2011 Sample Registration System (SRS). This statistic is the number of deaths for every 1,000 live births in the first year of the baby’s life. IMR determines the socio-economic status of a state/country besides determining the loss of lives annually.

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