Mapping Malnutrition amongst Children in India
Published: Mar 30, 2019
About 43 per cent of India’s districts have been ranked to have to have underweight children below the national average of 35.7 per cent. A view of a street in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.
Abstract: The recent Global Hunger Report 2018 has categorised India with ‘serious’ hunger levels. Among children, underfive malnutrition status is indeed poor when compared to global or even South East Asian SDG regions. In fact in some districts of India the prevalence of malnutrition is as high as many African countries.
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