Friday Factly 30 October 2020

General Studies-II

In terms of overall undernutrition, 14 % of the population doesn’t get enough calories.
35% of children are stunted. This was 54% in 2000.
17% of under 5 children are wasted. This is highest in the world.
42% of adolescent girls have low BMI and 56% anaemic.
27% of girls married before age.
According to FAO the share of India’s population unable to afford an energy-sufficient diet has shrunk to just 0.9%, the share of people unable to afford a nutrient-adequate diet is a large 39.1% and those unable to afford a healthy diet is a much higher 77.9%.

About 20% of rural children have no textbooks at home.
In Andhra Pradesh, less than 35% of children had textbooks, and only 60% had textbooks in Rajasthan.
More than 98% had textbooks in West Bengal, Nagaland and Assam.
3% of rural children’s are not enrolled in schools compared to 1.8% last year.
In 2018 about 36% of rural households with school-going children had smartphones.
Today that figure had spiked to 62%.
About 11% of families bought a new phone after the lockdown, of which 80% were smartphones.
India’s share in the merchandise export at the time of the independence in 1947 was 2.2%. It dropped to 0.5% in 1983 and marginally raised to 0.7% in 2000. Currently India’s share in worlds’ export is around 1.7%.
In 2000, India’s total trade was $ 103 bn, in 2010 it was $ 525 bn and in 2020 it is around $ 787 bn

Ischemic Heart Disease or Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) kills more than 4,000 Indians daily (Covid is killing about 1,100 a day).

The current pandemic would have cost around $16 trillion globally by July 2020.
Accor the cost to reduce the risks of future pandemics would be at least 100 times less than the cost to deal with these pandemics.
We are yet to identify some 1.7 million viruses that exist in mammals and birds. Out of these, 50 per cent have the potential or ability to infect humans.