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NFHS District Explorer

How did India's districts change between two national health surveys? Explore 105 indicators across 706 districts (child nutrition, anaemia, sanitation, women's literacy, immunisation and more) and see where things got better or worse between NFHS-4 (2015-16) and NFHS-5 (2019-21).

▸ Newer data available

The Health Ministry released NFHS-6 (fielded 2023-24) on 29 May 2026, superseding NFHS-5 as the latest round. This explorer still shows the NFHS-4 → NFHS-5 comparison and has not yet been rebuilt on NFHS-6 district data.

▸ How to read this map

  • Each shape is a district. Its colour shows the value of the indicator you pick.
  • Change mode (default): teal = the district improved since NFHS-4; coral = it worsened. Deeper colour = bigger change.
  • Hover, tap, or keyboard-focus a district for its numbers; click it to open a detailed before/after panel on the right.
  • Grey districts have no data for this indicator. Prefer text? Use View as table.

Ask the data a question

Across India's 706 districts, show .

Tap either underlined choice to ask about a different indicator or survey. Prefer knobs? Use the detailed controls below.

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District map

Choropleth map of Indian districts Colour-coded map. Use View as table for an accessible text alternative of every district value.

Legend

No data for this indicator

Sources & caveats

  • Data: IIPS/MoHFW NFHS district fact sheets. NFHS-5 was fielded in 2019-21; NFHS-4 in 2015-16. Where a district reports only one round, the change cannot be shown.
  • Boundaries: 2011 Census district boundaries. Districts created or split after 2011 are matched to their parent where possible.
  • 12 districts are table-only: Delhi's 11 sub-districts and Mumbai Suburban have survey data but no 2011 map polygon, so they appear in the rankings, search and table, but not shaded on the map.
  • Read colours with the indicator's direction in mind. For some indicators a higher number is good (literacy, sanitation); for others it is bad (stunting, child marriage). The map already flips the palette so that better outcomes read the same way, but a few indicators (e.g. sex ratio) are "direction not evaluated" and shown on a neutral diverging scale.
  • Values are survey estimates with sampling error; small district-to-district differences may not be meaningful. Use this as a teaching and screening tool, not a definitive ranking.

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