NITI Aayog Health Index 2021- Kerala tops among larger states, Mizoram among smaller- Check full ranking of states and UTs

Dec 27, 2021, 18:57 IST

NITI Aayog Health Index 2021: Kerala retained its top rank on the NITI Aayog health index 2021 among the larger states while Uttar Pradesh was the worst. Check full ranking of states and UTs here.

NITI Aayog Health Index 2021

NITI Aayog Health Index 2021: Niti Aayog released the fourth edition of its state health index for 2019-20 on December 27, 2021. The report, titled “Healthy States, Progressive India”, ranks states and Union Territories based on their year-on-year incremental performance in health as well as their overall status.

NITI Aayog releases the fourth edition of the State Health Index | Among the ‘Larger States’, in terms of annual incremental performance, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Telangana are the top three ranking states.
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2021

Kerala retained its top rank on the health index among the larger states while Uttar Pradesh was the worst. Mizoram topped the health index among smaller states while Nagaland was ranked at the bottom. Among union territories, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu was ranked at the top and Andaman & Nicobar was ranked at the bottom.

The fourth round of the Health Index highlights the overall performance and incremental improvement of states and UTs over the period from 2018-2019 to 2019-20. The health index is a weighted composite score that incorporates 24 indicators covering key aspects of health performance.

On overall ranking based on the composite index score in 2019–20, the top-ranking states were Kerala and Tamil Nadu among the ‘Larger States’, Mizoram and Tripura among the ‘Smaller States’, and DH&DD and Chandigarh among the UTs: NITI Aayog
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2021

NITI Aayog Health Index 2021- Larger States Ranking

Rank	State	Composite Score	Incremental Rank/ Change
1	Kerala	82.90	12 (0.60)
2	Tamil Nadu	72.42	8 ( 1.62)
3	Telangana	69.96	3 (4.22)
4	Andhra Pradesh	69.95	10 ( 1.07)
5	Maharashtra	69.14	4 ( 3.60)
6	Gujarat	63.59	9 ( 1.14)
7	Himachal Pradesh	63.17	15 ( -0.06)
8	Punjab	58.08	7 ( 1.74)
9	Karnataka	57.93	19 ( -1.37)
10	Chhattisgarh	50.70	16 ( -0.09)
11	Haryana	49.26	18 ( -0.55)
12	Assam	47.74	2 (4.34)
13	Jharkhand	47.55	5 (3.38)
14	Odisha	44.31	14 ( 0.13)
15	Uttarakhand	44.21	13 ( 0.58)
16	Rajasthan	41.33	17 ( -0.25)
17	Madhya Pradesh	36.72	6 ( 3.35)
18	Bihar	31.00	11 ( 0.76)
19	Uttar Pradesh	30.57	1 (5.52)

NITI Aayog Health Index 2021- Smaller States Ranking

Rank	State	Composite Score	Incremental Rank/ Change
1	Mizoram	75.77	1 ( 18.45)
2	Tripura	70.16	4 ( 0.19)
3	Sikkim	55.53	5 ( -0.72)
4	Goa	53.68	8 ( -12.68)
5	Meghalaya	43.05	2 ( 17.70)
6	Manipur	34.26	7 ( -5.73)
7	Arunachal Pradesh	33.91	6 ( -5.73)
8	Nagaland	27.00	3 ( 3.43)

NITI Aayog Health Index 2021- Performance of Union Territories

Rank	State	Composite Score	Incremental Rank/ Change
1	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	66.19	6 ( -3.53)
2	Chandigarh	62.53	7 ( -10.85)
3	Lakshadweep	51.88	3 (7.72)
4	Puducherry	50.83	4 ( 1.58)
5	Delhi	49. 85	1 (9.68)
6	Jammu and Kashmir	47.00	2 (9.55)
7	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	44.74	5 (0.14)

Background

The NITI Aayog Health Index 2021 was jointly released by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant, Additional Secretary Dr Rakesh Sarwal and World Bank Senior Health Specialist Sheena Chhabra. The report has been developed by NITI Aayog with technical assistance from the World Bank, in close consultation with the Health Ministry.