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A long-awaited survey that plugs a glaring data gap points to rising household expenditure, superior diets and a critical change: rural households spending less on food than other items. This is momentous for country emerging from deprivation.

Director of the International Institute for Population Sciences has been suspended by the Centre highlighting discrepancies in recruitment.

The data shows that it is essential to measure the success of sanitation interventions on adoption, rather than access as representative of the true state of the scenario.

India has 1,020 females per 1,000 males, according to the latest round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2019-21). Mint delves into the data to understand the larger implications of such a skew towards women in the sex ratio.

India isn’t making as much progress as it should have towards 'ending all forms of malnutrition by 2030 for children under 5'.

From a replacement-level fertility rate to rising anaemia prevalence, here’s what the latest round of the National Family Health Survey has found on key health indicators across India’s states