Global Nutrition Report 2018: India has the highest number of ‘stunted’ children

Global Nutrition Report 2018: India has the highest number of ‘stunted’ children in the world: Details, Key Findings

According to the WHO’s Global Nutrition Report 2018, India has the highest number of ‘stunted’ children in the world and nearly a third of all stunted children worldwide are to be found in India.

About 46.6 million children in India suffer from stunting due to poor nutrition intake in the long term and repeated infections.

India is also the country with the highest number of children who are ‘wasted’. This is an even more severe indicator of acute malnutrition

Global Nutrition Report 2018 Key Findings

Stunting among children aged under five has fallen from 32.6 percent in 2000 to 22.2 percent in 2017
20 million babies are born with low birth weight each year.
3 million Children in the world over are overweight, while 38.9 percent of adults are overweight or obese.
One-third of all women of reproductive age have anemia.
Women also have a higher prevalence of obesity than men.

About Global Nutrition Report

The Global Nutrition Report was introduced following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013. The Global Nutrition Report was formed as a mechanism for tracking the commitments made by 100 stakeholders spanning governments, aid donors, civil society, the UN and businesses.

The Global Nutrition Report is the world’s leading report on the state of global nutrition. The report is delivered by an Independent Expert Group and guided at a strategic level by a Stakeholder Group, whose members also review the Report.