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May 2021Change on a year earlierSikkim
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India, today
One score from 0 to 100, built in plain sight from three systems: whether mothers and children survive, how long people live, and the air they breathe. Tap the ring to see how it is made.
How this score is made
Good. ▲ +0.5 on the previous figures. Each segment is one system’s share of the score, coloured by that system’s own status.
How many babies, young children and mothers survive.
Meghalaya: highest city air quality index over the 7 days to 3 October 2026 was 132, above the 3-year median of 25 for the same week (+427%).
Meghalaya, 3 October 2026. CPCB air quality
Tamil Nadu: highest city air quality index over the 7 days to 3 October 2026 was 179, above the 5-year median of 82 for the same week (+117%).
Tamil Nadu, 3 October 2026. CPCB air quality
Jharkhand's maternal mortality ratio rose to 82 per 100,000 live births in 2022–24, from 54 in 2021–23 (+52%).
Jharkhand, 2022–24. Sample Registration System
Readings that move week to week. They are shown, not scored.
India Health Observatory. India health score 69.9 out of 100, with scores for states and union territories. https://indiahealthobservatory.com/
Based on SRS 2024; SRS 2022–24; SRS 2020–24; 12-month mean to 3 Oct 2026.
per 1,000 live births, SRS 2024
60 deaths per 1,000 is roughly where India stood in the mid-2000s; 5 is what the best-performing states and high-income countries achieve.
per 1,000 live births, SRS 2024
40 per 1,000 is about India's mid-2000s level; 3 matches the best health systems.
per 1,000 live births, SRS 2024
75 per 1,000 is about India's level when SRS began reporting it; 5 matches the best health systems.
per 100,000 live births, SRS 2022–24
300 per 100,000 births is about India's level in the early 2000s; 20 is what high-income countries achieve.
How long people live, and whether girls are born in natural numbers.
years, SRS 2020–24
60 years is about where India was in the early 1990s; 80 is where the longest-lived countries are.
females per 1,000 males, SRS 2022–24
About 950 girls per 1,000 boys is the natural ratio; 850 signals strong sex selection.
How clean the air has been over the last 12 months in monitored cities.
AQI, 12-month mean to 3 Oct 2026
On India's AQI scale, up to 50 is 'Good' and above 300 is 'Very Poor'. A 12-month average, so the score reflects the air people breathe across seasons, not this month's weather.
% of reporting cities, 12-month mean to 3 Oct 2026
No city with poor air scores 100; half of a state's cities at 'Poor' or worse, on an average day of the last 12 months, scores 0.
Strong 80+Good 65–79Fair 50–64Low under 50
India's score uses India's own national figures, which already weigh each state by its population, rather than averaging 36 states equally.
The latest period HMIS has published is older than its normal reporting lag, so these changes describe that period, not today. They are kept for the record. All of them
CPCB daily bulletin. The score uses the 12-month mean, so a bad week does not swing it.