Life expectancy at birth for India by sex, geography and wealth quintile
| Urban | Rural | Overall | |||||||
| Male | Female | Overall | Male | Female | Overall | Male | Female | Overall | |
| Wealth quintile | |||||||||
| Q1 Poorest | 66.4 | 70.8 | 68.4 | 62.2 | 65.9 | 64.0 | 63.2 | 67.1 | 65.1 |
| Q2 Poorer | 67.7 | 71.9 | 69.6 | 63.7 | 67.3 | 65.5 | 65.4 | 68.7 | 67.0 |
| Q3 Middle | 70.3 | 73.7 | 71.9 | 65.2 | 68.5 | 66.7 | 66.6 | 69.4 | 67.9 |
| Q4 Richer | 72.3 | 74.8 | 73.5 | 66.9 | 69.8 | 68.2 | 67.8 | 71.6 | 69.6 |
| Q5 Richest | 75.5 | 77.0 | 76.3 | 69.7 | 72.5 | 71.1 | 71.6 | 74.1 | 72.7 |
| Total | 70.5 | 73.5 | 71.9 | 65.6 | 68.7 | 67.1 | 66.9 | 70.0 | 68.3 |
| Inequality | |||||||||
| Absolute: Q5-Q1 | 9.1 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 8.3 | 7.0 | 7.6 |
| Relative: (Q5/Q1)−1 | 13.8% | 8.8% | 11.4% | 12.1% | 10.0% | 11.0% | 13.2% | 10.5% | 11.7% |
*Note national wealth quintiles used for overall columns, national urban wealth quintiles for urban columns and national rural wealth quintiles for rural columns.