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The National Information Resource for understanding public health and policy making that scrutinizes the key indicators like Fertility, Mortality and Causes of Death. The registration of birth and death can be helpful to change the health policy of a nation. Hence, a study is required to find out whether there is an increase or a decrease in the birth and death. Further, it is to identify that the effects in measuring the rate of increase or decrease in births and deaths are sensitive areas to frame a health policy. Here, an attempt is made to assess the vital statistics such as Birth rate, Death rate, Natural Growth rate (NGR) and Infant Mortality rate (IMR) are also considered in the study for various states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka. Later, basic statistical analyses were also carried out with respect to various levels of births and deaths and to predict the growth rate for the upcoming years from 2014 to 2017