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Table 3 Percentage of elderly suffered from water borne diseases in states of India (rural and urban)

From: Prevalence and predictors of water-borne diseases among elderly people in India: evidence from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, 2017–18

States

Rural (%)

Urban (%)

p-value

Jammu & Kashmir

10.4

6.6

 < 0.001

Himachal Pradesh

28.7

32.9

 < 0.001

Punjab

22.0

23.9

0.108

Chandigarh

0.0

11.5

 < 0.001

Uttarakhand

11.6

14.2

 < 0.001

Haryana

35.2

32.4

 < 0.001

Delhi

0.0

17.5

 < 0.001

Rajasthan

34.9

25.3

 < 0.001

Uttar Pradesh

33.6

26.7

 < 0.001

Bihar

33.7

36.3

 < 0.001

Arunachal Pradesh

24.6

9.9

 < 0.001

Nagaland

1.2

2.8

 < 0.001

Manipur

19.7

24.1

 < 0.001

Mizoram

34.5

36.1

 < 0.001

Tripura

13.5

8.6

 < 0.001

Meghalaya

9.5

5.5

 < 0.001

Assam

12.6

7.2

 < 0.001

West Bengal

14.9

10.1

 < 0.001

Jharkhand

18.1

12.5

 < 0.001

Odisha

11.1

8.1

 < 0.001

Chhattisgarh

38.5

30.4

 < 0.001

Madhya Pradesh

36.0

26.1

 < 0.001

Gujarat

22.3

14.5

 < 0.001

Daman & Diu

20.1

12.8

 < 0.001

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

44.9

42.0

 < 0.001

Maharashtra

12.8

4.9

 < 0.001

Andhra Pradesh

9.4

3.3

 < 0.001

Karnataka

14.5

1.9

 < 0.001

Goa

8.6

4.1

 < 0.001

Lakshadweep

7.3

1.5

 < 0.001

Kerala

3.9

3.5

0.665

Tamil Nadu

7.7

5.0

0.567

Puducherry

8.9

1.7

 < 0.001

Andaman & Nicobar Island

26.0

18.2

 < 0.001

Telangana

8.8

8.3

0.287

India

22.5

12.2

 < 0.001