India Has World’s Highest Number Of Stunted Children: IndiaSpend Story
Wednesday | 07th June 2017
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India now has the highest number of children stunted due to malnutrition – 48.2 million, equivalent to the population of Colombia, as per the latest global report on childhood. Also, 31 million of its children are a part of its workforce, the highest number in the world.
These two factors, along with early marriage and parenthood and lack of education, have pushed India to 116th position among 172 nations assessed for threats to childhood, according to the recent Stolen Childhoods report by Bal Raksha Bharat, an international non-profit working for marginalised and deprived children.
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