Global Nutrition Report 2021
- November 29, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Global Nutrition Report 2021
Context: As many as 12 million people died prematurely in 2018 due to risks linked to consumption of imbalanced and unhealthy diet, according to the Global Nutrition Report, 2021 (GNR) released November 23, 2021.
Concept:
Global Nutrition Report, 2021
- The World Health Organisation publishes the Global Nutrition Report
- It is published once in a year. The first Global Nutrition Report published in 2014.
- Global Nutrition Report Vision is “A world free from malnutrition in all its forms”.
- The GNR 2021 arrived at these conclusions based on an analysis of the estimates of food intake from the Global Dietary Database, weight measurements from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, diet-disease relationships from the epidemiological literature, and mortality and population estimates from the Global Burden of Disease project.
- The report tracks global nutrition targets on maternal, infant and young child nutrition and on diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases adopted by member states of the WHO as well as governments’ delivery against their commitments
Recent findings
- The increase of premature deaths due to poor diets was the highest in Africa (22 per cent), Latin America and the Caribbean (8 per cent). In Asia, the preventable deaths increased by 7 per cent, followed by Oceania (4 per cent) and Europe (2 per cent).
- Of the 12 million premature deaths attributed to dietary risks, 5.9 million avoidable deaths among adults were due to coronary heart disease > 2.9 million people (22 per cent) died due to cancers > 2.4 people (19 per cent) died prematurely due to strokes.
- None of the 190 countries assessed by the GNR, 2021, the rate of overweight and obesity continues to rise in the world and no country including India, is on-track to reduce obesity, according to the global nutrition target.
India specific findings
- India has made no progress on anaemia and childhood wasting.
- Over half of Indian women in the age group 15-49 years are anaemic. There has been a rise in anaemic6 per cent in 2016 to 53 per cent in 2020 were found to be anaemic.
- The country is also among 105 countries that are ‘on course’ to meet the target for ‘childhood overweight’ and among 53 countries ‘on course’ to meet the target for ‘exclusive breast feeding’.
- India does not have adequate data on prevalence of ‘low birth weight’