Statsguru: India's health chart

While air pollution has moved up, metabolic risks, e.g. high blood pressure, have rapidly jumped up the ladder

The India State-level Disease Burden Initiative recently released its first-ever report that provided a comprehensive and standardised comparison of health loss caused by different diseases and risk factors, across geographic units, sexes, and age groups over time. A key metric for mapping this change is the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), which is the sum of the number of years of life lost due to premature death and a weighted measure of the years lived with disability due to a disease or injury. 

Chart 1 maps the epidemiological transition ratio — defined as the ratio of DALYs caused by communicable, maternal, neonatal,