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Malnutrition in children has risen across India in recent years, sharply reversing hard-won gains, according to the latest government data. BBC Gujarati's Roxy Gagdekar finds out why.
Why India remains malnourished. Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world's worst level of child malnutrition. The government plans to pump in Rs 1,23,580 crore over the next five years to tackle the problem.
Jul 17, 2023 · The unaffordability of healthy food is escalating the concern about malnutrition in India. Compared to 9.2 per cent of the global population and only 2.5 per cent of China’s population, 16.6 per cent of the Indian population is undernourished. Credit: India Today.
- Samrat Sharma
- DIU
Nutrition. India contributes a third of the global burden of undernutrition. Given India’s population size, investing in actions to reduce all forms of malnutrition is especially important, not just for India itself, but also to support the attainment of global targets.
Feb 25, 2021 · With the second largest urban population globally, India needs to aggressively tackle the multiple burdens of malnutrition, especially among rural and urban slum households and develop actions to maintain trends in undernutrition reduction without exacerbating the rapidly rising problems of overweight/obesity.
- Phuong Hong Nguyen, Samuel Scott, Derek Headey, Nishmeet Singh, Lan Mai Tran, Purnima Menon, Marie T...
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0247856
- 2021
- PLoS One. 2021; 16(2): e0247856.
Malnutrition in India. Despite India's 50% increase in GDP since 2013, [1] more than one third of the world's malnourished children live in India. Among these, half of the children under three years old are underweight. One of the major causes for malnutrition in India is economic inequality.
May 5, 2023 · This data note describes trends in multiple forms of malnutrition and NCD outcomes at the national, state, and district levels for India using survey data from NFHS-3 (2005-06), NFHS-4 (2015- 2016) and NFHS-5 (2019-2021).
