India, May 18 -- Pune city has recorded a significant decline in infant- and child- mortality over the past five years with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials attributing the improvement to better maternal and child healthcare interventions, better surveillance, and targeted immunisation drives in vulnerable urban pockets.

As per data from the PMC, infant deaths in the city dropped from 843 in 2021, to 519 in 2022, to 346 in 2023, to 386 in 2024, to 300 in 2025; marking a major decline in absolute numbers. Whereas the infant mortality rate (IMR), which measures the deaths of children under one year per 1,000 live births, fell from 16.81 in 2021 to 5.62 in 2025.

According to the death audit committee of the PMC, among the infant ...