The Global Nutrition Report, 2021 has been released.<\/span><\/p>\n The Global Nutrition Report was conceived following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Released by:<\/b> \u200b\u200b <\/span>It is a multi-stakeholder initiative, consisting of a Stakeholder Group, Independent Expert Group and Report Secretariat.<\/span><\/p>\n Purpose: <\/b>The report is the world\u2019s leading independent assessment of the state of global nutrition. It provides a concise data-focused update on the state of diets and nutrition in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Anaemia: \u200b\u200b<\/b>Over half of Indian women in the age group 15-49 years are anaemic. There has also been a rise in anaemic Indian women since 2016. In 2016, 52.6% of Indian women were anaemic. But in 2020, 53% were found to be anaemic.<\/span><\/p>\n Childhood Wasting<\/b>: India has made no progress or is worsening on reducing \u2018childhood wasting\u2019. Over 17% of Indian children under 5 years of age are affected by wasting. This figure is much higher than the average for Asia, where close to 9% of children are affected. Wasting refers to children whose weight is low-for-their height.<\/span><\/p>\n Stunting:<\/b> India is \u2018on course\u2019 to meet the target for stunting. But over 34%\u00a0 of children under 5 years of age are still affected. This figure is higher than average for Asia, where close to 22% are affected by stunting. Stunting is when a child has a low height for their age.<\/span><\/p>\n Global Nutrition Targets:<\/b><\/a> India is \u2018off-course\u2019 in meeting 7 of the 13 global nutrition targets. These include sodium intake, raised blood pressure (both men and women), obesity (both men and women) and diabetes (both men and women).<\/span><\/p>\n Obesity:<\/b> Some 6.2% of adult (aged 18 years and over) women and 3.5% of adult men are living with obesity in the country. In fact, no country in the world was \u2018on course\u2019 to achieve the target for obesity.<\/span><\/p>\n Breastfeeding<\/b>: India is \u2018on course\u2019 to meet the target for \u2018exclusive breastfeeding\u2019. Some 58% of infants in the age group 0-5 months are exclusively breastfed in India.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>India has made no progress on anaemia, childhood wasting: Global Nutrition Report<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Down To Earth <\/b>on 23rd Nov 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Global Nutrition Report, 2021 has been released. What is the Global Nutrition Report 2021? The Global Nutrition Report was conceived following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013.\u00a0 Released by: \u200b\u200b It is a multi-stakeholder initiative, consisting of a Stakeholder Group, Independent Expert Group and Report Secretariat.… Continue reading India has made no progress on anaemia, childhood wasting: Global Nutrition Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704701154},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Global Nutrition Report 2021?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key findings of the report related to India?<\/b><\/h5>\n