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Joint Malnutrition Estimates Report
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- The 2023 edition of the ‘Joint Malnutrition Estimates’ (JME) has released by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank.
- There were 16 million fewer stunted children in India in 2022 as compared to 2012.
- Stunting among children under five years in India dropped from a prevalence rate of 41.6% in 2012 to 31.7% in 2022
- The numbers are dropping from 52 lakh to 36 lakh.
- The overall prevalence of wasting in 2022 was 18.7% in India, with a share of 49% in the global burden of this malnutrition indicator.
- The prevalence of obesity marginally increased in a decade from 2.2% in 2012 to 2.8% in 2022.
- India is contributing to 8.8% of the global share.
- But the overall classification for obesity is low and much lower than the global prevalence of 5.6%.
- Globally, stunting declined from a prevalence rate of 26.3% in 2012 to 22.3% in 2022.
- In South Asia, the decline was much sharper as it dropped from 40.3% to 30.5%.
- There was no improvement in the weight issue worldwide, as its prevalence rate grew from 5.5% to 5.6%.
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