India is a largest populated country and the population of age group 0 to 6 year is very large. Children of today are tomorrow citizen hence it is very necessary to provide better health care facilities to them. In India, the neonatal mortality rate is 24.9, infant mortality rate is 35.9 and under 5 mortality rate is 41.9 which is very high. There has been a lot of improvement since the NFHS4. In India, 35.5 percent children are stunted, 19.3 percent children are wasted and 32.1 percent fall in the category of underweight. The number of children affected with anaemia is 67.1 percent. This means that the health condition of children in India is not very good. This paper presents the health status of children in India. In particular, this paper presents the health status of children in rural India and rural-urban differences. Data collected by the National Family Health Survey 5 has been used to present the health status of children. 8 indicators have been used to present the child health status. Diagrams are used to show rural urban differences and state level differences.