STATISTICS
Health & Nutrition
Children
- 19.8 million children below age 6 in India are undernourished (ICDS 2015)
- 38% (1 in 3) of children between 0-5 years are stunted in the country (NFHS 4, 2015 – 2016)
- 36% of children under 5 years of age are underweight in India (NFHS, 2015 – 2016)
- 58% of children between 6 months – 5 years were found to be anemic in the country (NFHS, 2015 – 2016)
Health & Nutrition
Maternal Health
- Only 21% of mothers (1 in 5) recieved full antenatal care in the country (NFHS 4, 2015 – 2016)
- More than 50% of the pregnant women aged 15 – 49 years were found to be anemic (NFHS 4, 2015 – 2016)
Education
- Difference in literacy rate is huge around 17% between men (81.5) and women (64.6).
- There are currently 186 million females in India who cannot even read and write a single sentence in any language.
- The average annual dropout rate for secondary schools in India is about 17.06 percent.
- Major reasons for dropouts were: need to supplement income through household chores / domestic work and work to earn money.
- School related expenses were deterrents (direct cost appear to be a greater problem for dropouts).
Gender Issues
- 42% of married women in India were married as children (District Information System for Education (DISE) 3)
- 1 in every 3 child brides in the world is a girl in India (UNICEF).
- India has more than 45 lacs girls under 15 years of age who are married with children. Out of these, 70% of the girls have 2 children (Census 2011)
- Lifetime physical and/ or sexual intimate partner violence: 28.8%
- Kidnapping & Abduction-49%
- Rape- 18%
- Assault or insult to modesty of girl child- 11%
- Procuration of girls- 2%
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