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India · 36 States & UTs · 707 Districts
Survey-Weighted Health Estimates
India's fifth National Family Health Survey interviewed 636,699 households and 724,115 women across 707 districts, spanning all 28 states & 8 union territories. This dashboard weights the raw micro-data (V005 ÷ 1,000,000) into nationally representative estimates, disaggregated by state, residence, wealth and education.
Rankings
All 36 states and UTs, weighted estimates from unit-level microdata.
District Summary
Top and bottom 10 districts nationwide for the selected indicator.
Map
Every district — or state — shaded by value, with state boundaries overlaid.
District Spread
Each row is a state; every dot is one of its districts. The box marks the inter-quartile range with the median; whiskers span min–max. States sorted low → high.
Urban–Rural Divide
Each row is a state; the line is the urban–rural gap.
Equity Lens
Each row is a state; each coloured dot is a wealth quintile (Poorest → Richest). States are ranked by their overall value, with the India total pinned at the top.
Education Gradient
Each row is a state; each coloured dot is a women's education level (No Education → Higher). States are ranked by their overall value, with the India total pinned at the top. Available for women's and maternal-health indicators.
Correlation Explorer
Each point = a state. Toggle to districts to plot all 707 districts, or filter to one state.
Distributions
The stunting, wasting and underweight figures each count the children who fall below a cut-off on a growth scale. That single number comes from a whole curve of scores. This chart draws that full curve of children's growth against the WHO healthy standard, so you can see the entire picture, not just the count past the cut-off. The gap between the two curves is the malnutrition the headline percentage stands for.
Methodology
Between two surveys · 2015-16 → 2019-21
Every value is compared on the same footing — we hold the newer round's map fixed and read the older round onto it. Colour marks the direction of change — and, where an indicator has a healthy direction, whether the move was progress or a setback: teal = the indicator moved the right way (e.g. stunting fell, or immunisation rose), coral = it moved the wrong way. India's map was redrawn between the rounds — those boundary and district changes are handled explicitly and spelled out at the bottom.
Every indicator measured in both rounds, drawn as an arrow from its NFHS-4 value to its NFHS-5 value on one shared 0–100 scale, so every indicator reads the same way. Teal means the move was progress; coral, a setback. Sex ratio and fertility rate are rescaled to sit alongside the percentages. Click any row to load it into the charts below.
Pick an indicator and every chart below redraws to show it. Only the scorecard above stays fixed on all indicators at once.
Stunting, wasting and underweight each mark the share of children below −2 SD. Overlaying the full NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 Z-score distributions on the WHO standard shows the entire curve shifting between rounds — not just the headline number. NFHS-4 vs NFHS-5.