India’s population is growing, although death registrations in Uttar Pradesh declined during the epidemic year.

While the pattern of growing death registrations in India continued in 2020, Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, had a significant decline, despite the fact that the total number of fatalities would have most likely increased due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

According to Civil Registration System (CRS) data, Uttar Pradesh had 8.73 lakh fatalities in 2020, down from 9.44 lakh in 2019.