NEW DELHI: According to a report released in November, India is home to the largest number of malnourished children in the world.

The report found that till the beginning of 2016, 40 percent of Indian children were undernourished. On the other hand, it pointed out that urban India is faced with the challenge of over nutrition.

The study came after a seminar in Guwahati also declared nearly 195 million of India’s total population as ‘undernourished’, being devoid of access to healthy diet.

According to Wikipedia, despite India’s 50% increase in GDP since 1991, more than one third of the world’s malnourished children live in India. Among these, half of them under 3 are underweight and a third of wealthiest children are over-nutritioned.

As per World Bank estimates, India is one of the highest ranking countries in the world for the number of children suffering from malnutrition.

The prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world, and is nearly double that of Sub Saharan Africa with dire consequences for mobility, mortality, productivity and economic growth.