Global Nutrition Report 2020: India likely to miss nutrition targets
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Health
In News:
According to the Global Nutrition Report 2020, India is among 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025.
Key takeaways:
India will miss targets for all four nutritional indicators for which there is data available
stunting among under-five children
anaemia among women of reproductive age
childhood overweight
exclusive breastfeeding
Underweight rates:
Between 2000 and 2016, these rates have decreased from 66.0% to 58.1% for boys and 54.2% to 50.1% in girls.
Stunting:
37.9% of children under five are stunted and 20.8% are wasted.
Anaemia:
One in two women of reproductive age is anaemic.
Overweight and obesity:
They continue to rise, affecting almost one-fifth of the adults, at 21.6% of women and 17.8% of men.
India is identified as among the three worst countries, along with Nigeria and Indonesia, for steep within-country disparities on stunting.
Important value additions:
The Global Nutrition Report
It is a peer-reviewed, independently produced annual publication on the state of the world’s nutrition.
It was conceived following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013.
The first series was published in 2014.
Stunting
It is a reduced growth rate in human development.
It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition (or more precisely undernutrition) and recurrent infections, such as diarrhoea and helminthiasis, in early childhood.
Anaemia
A state in which haemoglobin in blood is below the reference range.
