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Story in numbers-Pramit Bhattacharya

Tribal Health Indicators

A tribal child is 25% more likely to be underweight and 40% more likely to die before five years of age compared with an average Indian child.

The proportion of low birth-weight children at around 23% as well as the proportion of neo-natal deaths at roughly 40% is similar for tribals and others.

However, more tribal children die in the 1-4 age group compared with others, according to the World Bank.

Tribals account for 11.7% of all children under five, but account for 14% of under-five deaths and 23% of all child deaths in the 1-4 age group in India.

Melghat, with an under-five mortality rate of 74, has twice as many children dying before the age of five as Iraq.

Half the 7.6 million under-five deaths in 2010 occurred in only five countries: India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China.

India (22%) and Nigeria (11%) together account for a third of all under-five deaths, according to the latest United Nations estimates.

With an under-five mortality rate of 63, India falls in the bottom quartile of countries in the world, according to the World Bank and ranks a lowly 165th.

Malnutrition statistics are worse: India is nearly at the bottom, with a third of the world’s malnourished children. India’s score in the global hunger index 2010 is described as alarming and the country is ranked a lowly 67th among 84 nations surveyed, below nations such as Sudan, Rwanda and Pakistan.

The global hunger index, developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute, is based on three key indicators: child malnutrition, rate of child mortality and percentage of people who are calorie-deficient.