1.25 lakh deaths in Delhi in 2015, 62 pc at hospitals: report

As many as 1.25 lakh deaths were recorded in the national capital last year with over 62 per cent of the fatalities reported by city hospitals, according to a Delhi government report released today.
"About 62.7 per cent of the total deaths in 2015 were reported by hospitals and remaining 37.3 were domiciliary deaths," as per the Annual Report on Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi 2015 prepared by the Directorate of Economics & Statistics of the city government.
Total number of deaths registered in Delhi during 2015 was 1.25 lakh as compared to 1.21 lakh in 2014. Average number of deaths registered per day in the city works out to be 341 in 2015, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said as he released the report.

The total number of births registered in Delhi has increased from 3,73,693 in 2014 to 3,74,012 in 2015, the report says.
"The average number of births per day works out to 1,025 in 2015 as compared to 1,024 in 2014. Out of the total births registered, 1.97 lakh (52.7 per cent) are males and 1.77 lakh (47.3 per cent) females," it said.
The report also says that birth rate in the city reduced from 20.9 per thousand population in 2014 to 20.5 in 2015.
"Out of the total registered births in Delhi, 34.99 were from NDMC, 31.80 in SDMC, 20.35 in EDMC, 11.92 in New Delhi Municiapal Council and 0.94 per cent in Delhi Cantonment Board area," it said.

The average number of births per day in Delhi during 2015 stood at 1,025 and the average number of deaths per day is 341. Thus the net natural increase in population of Delhi is 684 per day and 2.50 lakh in a year. The remaining increase in the population of Delhi is due to migration, it added.