ASAR, Association for Socially Applicable Research Rural Health Statistics · Data Explorer

Rural Health Statistics of India

Nineteen years of the Government of India's Rural Health Statistics in one analysis-ready dataset: 863 indicators for every State and Union Territory, extracted from the annual report PDFs.

Sub Centres · PHCs · CHCs Infrastructure & workforce Tribal-area tables Special values preserved
Sub Centre adequacy (in position ÷ required), 2022-23. Green = at or above requirement.
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Section 01

Inside the dataset

863 indicators across 12 domains, for every State and Union Territory, 2005-2023. Start with a domain, search the full dictionary, or scan the coverage matrix. Coverage deepens sharply with the 2019 redesign of the source report.

Data access

CSV and XLSX, verified against the source reports

The full dataset is shared on request while it is being prepared for formal release. Write to us with a line on your intended use and we will send the files: the long format table, the 863 indicator dictionary, per year tables for 2005 to 2023, and the twelve thematic tables.

Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution, non-commercial). See the codebook for methodology, indicator naming, special-value semantics, boundary changes, and known limitations. An independent research compilation, not an official publication of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Cell colour = share of that domain's indicators reporting in the year, scaled within each row. Rows are not comparable to each other by colour.

Section 02

Every state, every year

Pick an indicator and scrub the timeline. Values are printed on each state; the smaller territories are called out with leader lines. Click any state for its full profile.

2023 drives the map, the state panel and the ranking below

Pre-2015, Telangana is included in undivided Andhra Pradesh. Jammu & Kashmir includes Ladakh before 2020. Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu are shown combined across all years (summed before their 2020 merger). Hatched states mark values the source reports as not applicable or not reported. Boundaries derived from Census of India 2011 district geometry (Survey of India-aligned external boundary; DataMeet community maps, CC-BY), simplified for display; for statistical visualisation only.

Section 04

Two decades of change

Where the rural public health system stood in 2005, and where the 2022-23 report leaves it. Each row compares the first and latest reported national totals.

Relative change between the 2005 and 2022-23 reported totals. Sub Centre counts include HWC-SCs after the 2019 integration. L = lakh (1,00,000).

Section 05

Tribal-area and rural systems, read together

The RHS publishes rural and tribal-area tables separately. Joining them yields a capacity index for each system (facilities in position over facilities required) and a disparity index, the tribal capacity relative to rural.

Capacity index C = in position ÷ required (1.0 = adequate)

Disparity index D = Ctribal ÷ Crural (below 1.0 = tribal areas worse off)

National values. 2019 is read from that report's HWC-integrated columns (same definition, renamed for one year). Endpoint values verified against the 2011 and 2021 source PDFs, table by table.