Malnutrition In India Statistics 2019
Using pooled health surveys from 1993 to 2005 and a pseudo panel selection model this study finds that the change in height for age z scores haz scores can be explained by mortality selection.
Malnutrition in india statistics 2019. India presents itself as a paradox with low infant mortality and high malnutrition. 51 4 of women of reproductive age have anaemia and 9 1 of adult men have diabetes compared to 8 3 of women. Malnutrition caused 69 per cent of deaths of children below the age of five in india according to a unicef report released on wednesday. The food and nutrition security analysis india 2019 a report by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation and the world food programme lists maharashtra as one of the six states.
India s global hunger index india ranking of 67 the 80 nations with the worst hunger situation places us even below north korea or sudan. India needs a lot more to be done to tackle the menace of malnutrition and ngos are plugging the gaps in government. The 2019 global hunger index ghi report ranked india 102nd out of 117 countries with a serious issue of child wasting. The simultaneous occurrence of over nutrition and under nutrition indicates that adults in india are suffering from a dual burden of malnutrition abnormal thinness and obesity.
India s adult population also face a malnutrition burden. In its report the state of the world s children 2019 unicef said that every second child in that age group is affected by some form of malnutrition. This implies that about 56 of women and 61 of men are at normal weight for their height. Reports of national health family survey united nations.
India is one of the fastest growing countries in terms of population and economics sitting at a population of 1 365 billion and growing at 1 5 1 7 annually from 2001 2007. Malnutrition according to the world health organization who refers to deficiencies excesses or imbalances in a person s intake of energy and or nutrients. 44 of children under the age of 5 are underweight while 72 of infants have anaemia. There is insufficient data on low birth weight.
At least one in five children under the age of five years in india are wasted. In india 54 9 of infants under 6 months are exclusively breastfed. Meanwhile 5 1 of women and 2 7 of men have obesity. It is well known that maternal infant and child nutrition play significant roles in the proper growth and development including future socio economic status of the child.