National Health Profile

An updated and reliable Health Data is essential for effective planning, decision-making, monitoring and evaluation of various Health Programmes & Health Sector Development activities.  To achieve this objective, the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), annually brings out a Publication “National Health Profile (NHP), which covers all the major information on Demography, Socio-Economic Status, Disease Morbidity & Mortality, Healthcare Finance, Human Resources in Health and Healthcare Infrastructure.

The objective of this publication is to create a time series data of health information of India and making it available to all stakeholders in a comprehensive, up-to-date and easy to access manner.  This publication takes into account recent trends in demography, disease profile (communicable and non communicable) and available health resources which define a country's health status. The disease profile has been presented following standard coding from Family of International classification (FIC). It improves interoperability of the data internationally. The purpose is to provide relevant information for planning and decision making to the planners, policy makers, health administrators, research workers and others engaged in the health and socio-economic status of the community. This publication is also useful for medical post graduates and trainees of medical and paramedicals.

National Health Profile-2022(PDF)