This is the presentation given at the launch of the India Health Report on Nutrition 2015 in Delhi 10 December.

1. INDIA HEALTH REPORT: NUTRITION
2015

2. KEY MESSAGES

3. Stunting, wasting and underweight rates of India's children have
declined, especially during the last decade, but still exceed
levels observed in countries at similar income levels.
KEY MESSAGE: 1

4. The rate of improvement in nutritional status has not kept pace
with India's significant gains in economic prosperity and
agricultural productivity during recent decades. Stunting rates
are likely to decline with economic progress, but economic
growth cannot, by itself, reduce undernutrition and may
contribute to overweight and obesity.
KEY MESSAGE: 2

5. Nutritional status and progress on reducing stunting vary
markedly across India's states indicating that state-specific
approaches are necessary to achieve further gains in reducing
stunting.
KEY MESSAGE: 3

6. The underlying reasons for India's high rates of stunting and
variability in progress are complex and intertwined.
KEY MESSAGE: 4

7. India ignores the problem of undernutrition and its impact on
child development at its peril and risks large economic, health
and social consequences for future generations.
KEY MESSAGE: 5

8. India's undernutrition problem is a serious threat to child
development. Accelerating action at the state-level is essential
to change the course of the future for India's children.
KEY MESSAGE: 6

9. FIGURE 1. TRENDS IN NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN INDIA, 1993 to 2014

10. FIGURE 2. PREVALENCE OF UNDER-5 STUNTING AND LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BY COUNTRY

11. FIGURE 3. AVERAGE ANNUAL RATE OF REDUCTION IN UNDER-5 STUNTING, 2005 to 2014, BY COUNTRY

12. FIGURE 4. STUNTING, WASTING AND UNDERWEIGHT PREVALENCE IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN, BY GLOBAL REGIONS

13. FIGURE 5. PER CAPITA INCOME AND PREVALENCE OF STUNTING IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN, BY STATE

14. FIGURE 6. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND PREVALENCE OF STUNTING IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN IN INDIA

15. FIGURE 7. PREVALENCE OF STUNTING IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN, BY STATE

16. FIGURE 8. PREVALENCE OF STUNTING IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN IN 2014 AND ANNUAL RATE OF REDUCTION,
2006 TO 2014, BY STATE

17. FIGURE 9. PREVALENCE OF WASTING IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN, BY STATE

18. FIGURE 10. PREVALENCE OF UNDERWEIGHT IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN, BY STATE

19. FIGURE 11. PREVALENCE OF ANEMIA IN CHILDREN (6-59 MONTHS) AND WOMEN (15-49 YEARS), BY STATE

20. FIGURE 12. PREVALENCE OF STUNTING, WASTING AND UNDERWEIGHT IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN,
BY PLACE OF RESIDENCE

21. FIGURE 13. STUNTING PREVALENCE IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN AND AVERAGE AGE OF MARRIAGE OF WOMEN

22. COMPARATIVE INDICATORS

23. 1. CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS WHO ARE STUNTED

24. 2. CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS WHO ARE WASTED

25. 3. INFANTS 0-5 MONTHS OLD WHO ARE EXCLUSIVELY BREASTFED

26. 4. CHILDREN UNDER 3 YEARS WHO WERE LOW BIRTH WEIGHT

27. 5. WOMEN 15-49 YEARS OLD WITH ANEMIA

28. 6. CHILDREN 6-59 MONTHS OLD WITH ANEMIA

29. 7. ADOLESCENT GIRLS 15-18 YEARS OLD WITH LOW BODY MASS INDEX

30. 8. INFANTS 6-8 MONTHS OLD WHO RECEIVE SOLID, SEMI-SOLID OR SOFT FOODS

31. 9. MINIMUM DIET DIVERSITY DURING COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING
(FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN 6-23 MONTHS OLD)

32. 10. CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS WITH DIARRHEA IN 15 DAYS PRIOR TO SURVEY

33. 11. MOTHERS OF CHILDREN UNDER 3 YEARS OLD WHO RECEIVED THREE OR MORE ANTENATAL CHECKUPS

34. 12. CHILDREN 12-23 MONTHS OLD WHO ARE FULLY IMMUNIZED

35. 13. CHILDREN 6-35 MONTHS OLD WHO RECEIVED SUPPLEMENTARY FOOD UNDER ICDS
FOR AT LEAST 21 DAYS IN THE MONTH PRIOR TO THE SURVEY

36. 14. CURRENTLY MARRIED WOMEN WITH 10 OR MORE YEARS OF SCHOOLING

37. 15. WOMEN AGED 20-24 YEARS WHO WERE MARRIED BEFORE THE AGE OF 18

38. 16. OPEN DEFECATION

39. 17. POPULATION BELOW STATE-SPECIFIC POVERTY LINE

40. 18. STATES THAT HAVE A NUTRITION
MISSION