This study is an attempt to see the status of infant mortality rate (IMR) in rural and urban India. Study also finds the impact of gross domestic product (GDP), fund released by State government for health care and vaccination coverage on IMR. Secondary data has been collected from www.data.gov.ac.in. Normality of the data has been checked with Skewness, Kurtosis and Box Plots. Further analysis is done through independent sample t test, regression and correlation analysis. The results show that vaccination has significant impact on IMR in rural and urban India while GDP and government funding are unable to contribute to reducing the IMR in India. Further the IMR in rural area is significantly higher than the urban area. Therefore, only increasing the per capita income and becoming richer will not suffices for mortality rate reduction. Further health care facility, education and empowerment are also required. Fund released for the health care purpose should also be disbursed in such a way so that advantages can be given to infant child.
