Lack of data and political fragmentation combined. There kind of needs to be someone to collect the data, which implies a stable government.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORThttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rateEdited with better data. I'd
heard that India's private health system could be blamed for a lot of deaths but I never actually figured out the numbers before. The gap is indeed huge. 4.8% of Indians die before their 5th birthday compared to only 1.1% of Chinese. The Chinese have reduce infant mortality by a factor of 11 since 1950, whereas India only reduced it by a factor of 4.
The difference is socialized medicine vs India's for-profit healthcare system. Assuming India
should have reduced infant deaths by the same factor as China to be equal, they
should have a current under-5 death rate of about 1.6%. That would be roughly an equal improvement to China, based on where they started from.
So for every currently living Indian there are a missing 3.2% of the population who are their dead siblings killed by the capitalist medical system, who would be alive if India kept pace with China. That's 42 million people, and it doesn't count missing siblings of already-dead people, missing children they would have had, nor does it take into account that Indians only live 65 years to Chinese 75 years, when in fact, up to the 1950s, it was Indians who lived longer. Every Indian is missing 1/7th of their lives compared to the Chinese - this figure takes infant mortality into account however. Since everyone dies eventually, the only relative measure that makes sense is to measure how many lifetimes worth of time have been lost in one system vs the other. Since each Indian has lost 1/7th of their lifespan compared to China, that's about 200 million extra lost lifetimes worth of living for the current 1.4 billion Indian people because India's healthcare didn't improve as rapidly as China.
I've read figures from years ago estimating that capitalist deprivations killed 100 million Indians unnecessarily, and just crunching the infant mortality rates and lower life expectancy data backs that up.
Lives lost unnecessarily from India's shitty capilalist healthcare system post-WWII is the
biggest genocide in history.