Fourteen district offices, 61 taluk offices and statistical cells in 41 departments
Background
Kerala's vital rates are published by the Department of Economics and Statistics, whose field machinery is set out on its own site.
The department works through 14 District Statistical Offices and 61 Taluk Statistical Offices, with statistical cells in 41 state government departments.
It publishes the Consumer Price Index for rural, urban and combined series, the July 2026 issue being among its listed publications, and the Index of Industrial Production report for Quarter 1 of 2026-27.
Among the vital statistics it records are a birth rate of 11.06 and a death rate of 8.56 for 2023.
It gives life expectancy at birth as 72.2 for men and 77.9 for women, and a maternal mortality ratio of 25.
In plain words
CPI Consumer Price Index — An index of the change in retail prices of a basket of goods and services.
MMR Maternal Mortality Ratio — Maternal deaths per one lakh live births.