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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India has highest prevalence of underweight kids: Study

India has highest prevalence of underweight kids: Study

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published Published on Oct 12, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 12, 2010

India  has highest prevalence of underweight children under five and the level of hunger there is "alarming" as the country ranks 67, out of 84 countries, on the Global Hunger Index, a new study has found.

About 40 per cent of under-five children in India, Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, and Yemen were underweight, while Afghanistan, Angola, Chad, and Somalia have the highest under -five mortality rate - 20 per cent or more, a report by Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has found.

"Globally, the biggest contributor to the world GHI (Global Hunger Index) score is child underweight," it said. The GHI was calculated on three factors - the proportion of people who are undernourished, the proportion of children under five who are underweight, and the child mortality rate.

The report found that in South Asia, India was among the countries with hunger levels considerably higher than their GNI (Gross National Income) per capita would suggest, while China had considerably lower hunger levels.

In India, the report said, the "high" GHI scores "were driven by high levels of child underweight resulting from the low nutritional and social status of women in the country."

"Conflict, disease, inequality, poor governance, and gender discrimination were factors that can push a country's level of hunger higher than what would be expected based on its income," it noted.

The study also found that more than 90 per cent of the world's stunted children live in Africa and Asia where rates were 40 per cent and 36 per cent respectively, and more than 80 per cent of stunted children were living in 24 countries.


The Times of India, 12 October, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-has-highest-prevalence-of-underweight-kids-Study-/articleshow/6733322.cms


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