General Health
General Health in India - data on stunting, wasting, anaemia, obesity, hypertension, including expert analysis.
General Health in India - data on stunting, wasting, anaemia, obesity, hypertension, including expert analysis.
SUBJECT Variables
CHILD HEALTH
Stunting is the impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation. Children are defined as stunted if their height-for-age is more than two standard deviations below the WHO Child Growth Standards median.
- 35.5% of children under 5 years of age across India were found to be stunted in 2020-21
- 46.5% of children under 5 years of age in Meghalaya in 2020-21 were stunted while the ratio of stunted children under 5 in Bihar was 42.9%.
Child wasting refers to a child who is too thin for his or her height and is the result of recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted has an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible.
- 19.3% of children under 5 years of age across India were found to be wasted in 2020-21
- 1 in 4 children under 5 years of age in Maharashtra and Gujarat in 2020-21 were wasted while 1 in 5 children in Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Telangana and, West Bengal were wasted
Children under five years of age whose weights are less than two standard deviations below the median weight for each age in the international reference population are classified as underweight.
- 32.1% of children under 5 years of age across India were found to be underweight in 2020-21
- Over 30% of children under 5 years of age in Assam, Bihar, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and West Bengal in 2020-21 were found to be underweight.
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