GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT (GNR) 2018

About:

• GNR 2018 is a peer-reviewed, independently produced annual publication on the state of the world’s nutrition.
  
  
• Background: The Global Nutrition Report was conceived following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013. The first series was published in 2014.
  
  

Key Findings:

• Malnutrition is responsible for more ill health than any other cause.
  
  
• Children under five years of age face multiple burdens: 8 million are stunted, 50.5 million are wasted and 38.3 million are overweight.
  
  
• Meanwhile 20 million babies are born of low birth weight each year.
  
  
• Overweight and obesity among adults are at record levels with 9% of adults overweight or obese.
  
  
• One third of all women of reproductive age have anaemia and women have a higher prevalence of obesity than men. Millions of women are still underweight.
  
  
• Yet significant steps are being made to address malnutrition.
  • Globally, stunting among children has declined and there has been a slight decrease in underweight women.
    
    
  • Many countries are set to achieve at least one of the targets set by the global community to track progress on nutritional status to 2025. 
    
    
  
  
  
• Donors have met the funding commitment made at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in 2013, but globally there is still a significant financing gap.
  
  

Indian Scenario:

• A third of the world’s stunted children under five — an estimated 46.6 million who have low height for age — live in India. A quarter of the children display wasting (that is, low weight for height) as well.
  
  
• District-level data show high and very high levels of stunting mainly in central and northern India (more than 30% and 40%, respectively), but less than 20% in almost the entire south.
  
  
• Only 21% of the packaged foods available to children in India are rated as being healthy.