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The Situation of Underprivileged Children in India
- 40% of India’s population is below the age of 18 years which at 400 million is the world’s largest child population.
- Less than half of India’s children between the age 6 and 14 go to school.
- A little over one-third of all children who enroll in grade one reach grade eight.
- One in every ten children is disabled in India.
- 95 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their fifth birthday.
- 70 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their first birthday.
- Only 38% of India’s children below the age of 2 years are immunized.
- 74% of India’s children below the age of 3 months are anemic.
- More than one in three women in India and over 60% of children in India are anemic.
- Acute respiratory infections are leading causes of child mortality (30%) followed by diarrhoea (20%) in India.
- One in every 100 children in India between age group of 0-14 years suffers from acute respiratory infection.
- Almost one in every five children in India below the age of 14 suffers from diarrhoea. 30-40% of the India’s population, which is largely economically deprived, spends over 70% of their total expenditure on food.
- Amongst married women in India today, 75% were under age at the time of their marriages.
- While one in every five adolescent boys is malnourished, one in every two girls in India is undernourished.
- 23% of India’s children are underweight at birth.
- 58% of India’s children below the age of 2 years are not fully vaccinated. And 24% of these children do not receive any form of vaccination.
- More that 50% of India’s children are malnourished.
