In a pointer to improved health indicators, Karnataka’s Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) fell by two points from 21 in 2019 to 19 in 2020, according to the Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin for 2020 released on Thursday.
IMR is defined as the infant deaths (less than one year) per thousand live births in a given time period and for a given region. The SRS taken up by the Office of the Registrar General of India is a large-scale demographic survey for providing reliable annual estimates of infant mortality rate, birth rate, death rate, and other fertility and mortality indicators at the national and regional level.