India has consistently questioned WHO’s own admission that data in respect of seventeen Indian states was obtained from some websites and media reports and was used in their mathematical model. This reflects a statistically unsound and scientifically questionable methodology of data collection for making excess mortality projections in case of India.
New Delhi: India has been consistently objecting to the methodology adopted by WHO to project excess mortality
estimates based on mathematical models. Despite India’s objection to the process, methodology and outcome of
this modelling exercise, WHO has released the excess mortality estimates without adequately addressing India’s
concerns. India had also informed WHO that in view of the availability of authentic data published through Civil Registration System (CRS) by Registrar General of India (RGI), mathematical models should not be used for projecting excess mortality numbers for India.
