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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India Has Failed Its Children, Tops in Stunting and Wasting

India Has Failed Its Children, Tops in Stunting and Wasting

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published Published on Dec 2, 2018   modified Modified on Dec 2, 2018
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Out of the total 150.8 million stunted children in the world, India is home to 31 per cent of them, while half of all ‘wasted’ children across the globe are also in India, says the Global Nutrition Report 2018.

India is the country with the highest number of ‘stunted’ children in the world — in fact, nearly a third of all stunted children worldwide are to be found in India, says the Global Nutrition Report 2018, which was published on November 29.

There are 46.6 million children in our country who suffer from stunting (impaired growth or low height for age) — a result of poor nutrition intake in the long term and repeated infections.

Out of the total 150.8 million children in the world who are stunted, India is home to 31 per cent of them. The country is followed by Nigeria (13.9 million) and Pakistan (10.7 million) in terms of the largest population of stunted children. Together, the three countries account for almost half (47.2 per cent) of all stunted children on the planet, says the report.

Globally, stunting among children aged under five had fallen globally from 32.6 per cent in 2000 to 22.2 per cent in 2017, the report said.

What’s more, India is also the country with the highest number of children who are ‘wasted’ (low weight for height, indicating severe weight loss), an even more severe indicator of acute malnutrition.

India has 25.5 million children who are wasted — out of the 50.5 million children who are wasted globally, or half of the global wasting burden. India is again followed by Nigeria (3.4 million), and then Indonesia (3.3 million) in the number of wasted children.

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Newsclick.in, 2 December, 2018, https://www.newsclick.in/india-has-failed-its-children-tops-stunting-and-wasting


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