State PSC Cohort - Current Affairs

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UPPCS 2025 DATA BOOK ENGLISH - MakeIAS

📊 Sample Registration Survey (SRS) Statistical Report 2023 Conducted by 🔺Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner (ORGI), India Purpose 🔺Provides fertility & mortality indicators: •Crude Birth Rate (CBR) •Crude Death Rate (CDR) •Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) •Total Fertility Rate (TFR) 🔹 Fertility & Birth Rates ▪️CBR: Declined → 19.1 (2022) → 18.4 (2023) ▪️TFR: Declined → 2.0 (2021 & 2022) → 1.9 (2023) ⚫️Highest CBR: Bihar (25.8) | Lowest CBR: Tamil Nadu (12) ⚫️Highest TFR: Bihar (2.8) | Lowest TFR: Delhi (1.2) ⚫️Below Replacement Level TFR (≤2.1): 18 States/UTs State-wise TFR (Highlights) 🔺High: Bihar (2.8), UP (2.6), MP (2.4), Rajasthan (2.3), Chhattisgarh (2.2) 🔻Low: Delhi (1.2), West Bengal (1.3), Tamil Nadu (1.3), Maharashtra (1.4), Telangana/AP/Kerala/Karnataka/J&K/Punjab (1.5) 🔹 Mortality Indicators 🔘CDR: Declined → 6.8 (2022) → 6.4 (2023) IMR: 25 (2023) (↓ 1 point from 2022, ↓ 7 points in 5 years) National Fact: 1 in every 40 infants dies before age 1 🔹 Elderly Population (60+ years) •Share: Increased to 9.7% (2023) (↑ 0.7 percentage points) Highest: Kerala (15%) Lowest: Assam (7.6%), Delhi (7.7%), Jharkhand (7.6%) 🔹 Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) National SRB: 917 girls / 1000 boys (2023) 🔺Highest: Chhattisgarh (974), Kerala (971) 🔻Lowest: Uttarakhand (868) Bihar trend: 964 (2020) → 891 (2022) → 897 (2023) (still low) Other low (<900): Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana #prelims #currentaffairs #uppcs