Characters of positive and negative outlier states in India

John C. Caldwell in 1986 wrote about low mortality among selected countries in his article “Routes to low mortality in poor countries” what Kuhn later on to mark twenty-fifth year of Colwell achievement did a similar work to identify the modern route to low mortality . Both these articles are interesting in explaining how poor countries did well in mortality decline when in 1980s report came saying how mortality decline “slowed down or stagnated” in many parts of the world . This is an attempt to identify the positive outliers in mortality among the Indian states. We did found out some poor Indian states doing relatively better but unlike what Coldwell and Kuhn found out, we can see two separate lists of positive outlier states for IMR and life expectancy at birth. Literacy among females still holds a very important role, positive outlier states apart from having high literacy rate gender gap in literacy is least. While on the other end, Arunachal Pradesh is a positive outlier in IMR has low female literacy rate but literacy among male is also low in comparison to other states. It also looks at how some factors play a dual and opposite role.