Hunger is the No One Cause of Death in India

Hunger is the No 1(one) Cause of Death in India

• Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world also. Aids, Cancer etc. follow
• There are 820 million chronically hungry people in the world. / 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars
• 1/3^rd of the world’s hungry live in India.
• 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day.
• Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight.
• India has 212 million undernourished people – only marginally below the 215 million estimated for 1990–92.
• Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.
• Over 25 lakh Indians die of hunger every year
• Despite substantial improvement in health since independence, under-nutrition remains a silent emergency in India, with almost 50 percent of Indian children underweight and more than 70 percent of the women and children with serious nutritional deficiencies as anemia.
• The 1998 – 99 Indian survey shows 57 percent of the children aged 0 – 3 years to be either severely or moderately stunted and/or underweight.
• During 2006 – 2007, malnutrition contributed to seven million Indian children dying, nearly two million before the age of one.
• 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anemic.
• The number of hungry people in India is always more than the number of people below official poverty line (while around 37% of rural households were below the poverty line in 1993-94, 80% of households suffered under nutrition).

 

 

 

Sources / Ref: UN World Food Programme

UN World Health Organization: Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, 2006

UN Food and Agriculture Organization: SOFI 2006 Report

National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (India)

National Family Health Survey 2005 – 06 (NFHS-3) (India)

Centre for Environment and Food Security (India)

Rural 21 (India)

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