The scale of malnutrition worldwide is
staggering.
1 in 3
|
proportion
of people on the planet who are malnourished
|
1 in 12
|
number of adults with raised blood
glucose levels or diabetes
|
45
|
percentage
of countries that face a double burden of malnutrition—that is,
undernutrition combined with overweight, obesity, and/or nutrition-related
noncommunicable diseases
|
more than 50
|
percentage
of children under age 5 who are stunted or wasted in 5 countries studied
(Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Nigeria)
|
193
|
number
of countries, out of 193 UN member countries, with a serious malnutrition
problem
|
42 million
|
number
of children under age 5 worldwide who are overweight or obese
|
51 million
|
number
of children under age 5 worldwide who are wasted (too thin)
|
161 million
|
number of children under age 5 worldwide who are stunted (too
short)
|
795 million
|
number
of people who are hungry
|
1.9 billion
|
number of people worldwide who are overweight or obese
|
2 billion
|
number
of people who are micronutrient deficient (do not get enough vitamins and
minerals)
|
We are paying high
human and financial costs for malnutrition.
2–20%
|
share
of health costs around the world that go to obesity treatment
|
10%
|
cost
of malnutrition in Malawi as a share of GDP
|
45%
|
percentage
of deaths of children under age 3 that are linked to malnutrition
|
And investing in nutrition
has high returns.
10%
|
the
30-year compound rate of return to scaling up nutrition programs in 40
countries (the US stock market would have given you less over the past 30
years)
|
13%
|
the
compound rate of return to scaling up nutrition-specific interventions in
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali , Nigeria, and Togo
|
16 to 1
|
the
benefit-cost ratio of investing in scaling up nutrition interventions in 40
countries
|
Unfortunately,
nutrition is scarcely mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
0
|
number
of times obesity is mentioned in the SDG outcome document
|
1
|
number
of SDG targets, out of 169, that mention nutrition
|
2
|
number
of SDG indicators that mention nutrition
|
8
|
number
of SDG indicators that should deal with nutrition, according to the UN
Standing Committee on Nutrition and other organisations
|
We are making
some progress, in some places, on tackling undernutrition.
39
|
number
of countries on track to meet the World Health Assembly (WHA) global target
on reducing child stunting, up from 24 in 2014
|
67
|
number
of countries on track to meet WHA target on reducing child wasting, up from
59 in 2014
|
63
|
number
of countries on track to meet WHA target on reducing child overweight, up
from 55 in 2014
|
39%
|
share
of children under age 5 who are stunted in India, down from 48% in 2005/2006
|
50%
|
amount
by which the worst-affected Indian states reduced child wasting between 2005
and 2013
|
100%
|
amount
by which the worst-affected Indian states increased exclusive breastfeeding
between 2005 and 2013
|
In other places,
nutrition is improving far too slowly or even getting worse.
0
|
number
of countries that have reversed the tide of adult obesity
|
1
|
number
of countries on track to meet all 5 WHA targets: Kenya
|
5
|
number of countries on track to meet global target for reducing
anemia in women of reproductive age
|
6
|
number
of countries that are not on track to meet any WHA targets
|
30–50%
|
projected increase in level of child stunting by
2050 because of climate change
|
63
|
number of
countries that have low and increasing rates of overweight and obesity
|
127
|
number of
countries that have high and increasing rates of overweight and obesity
|
We still know too
little about people’s nutrition status and the actions being taken to improve
it.
3
|
number
of high-impact nutrition interventions, out of 12, for which we have comparable
national data on coverage
|
5
|
number
of the 6 World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for which we can
track progress (child stunting, child wasting, child overweight, exclusive
breastfeeding, anemia in women of reproductive age; work on determining
progress for low birth weight is ongoing)
|
9
|
number
of the 151 new data points added to the WHO/UNICEF database that are from
OECD countries (Australia, Chile, and Japan)
|
58
|
number
of countries that can track only one WHA target
|
108
|
number
of counties that can track four WHA targets, up from 99 in 2014
|
115
|
number of countries without enough data to assess progress on
exclusive breastfeeding
|
Actions by nutrition
stakeholders show areas of both progress and failure.
1.3
|
average
share of government budget allocated to nutrition-specific and
nutrition-sensitive spending in 14 SUN member countries
|
6
|
number
of donors that made commitments at the 2013 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit,
out of 13, that failed to report on the full set of financial data requested
by the Global Nutrition Report
|
10
|
number
of SUN member countries’ nutrition plans, out of 26, that mention climate
explicitly
|
13
|
number
of donors that spent less than US$1 million on nutrition-specific
interventions in 2013
|
21%
|
share
of N4G commitments that were not reported on, up from 10% in 2014
|
24
|
number of Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) indicators, out of 178,
for which all 25 companies assessed scored zero
|
30
|
number
of counties undertaking a nutrition accounting process within their
government budgets, up from 3 in 2014
|
30%
|
share
of the 284 commitments made at the 2013 N4G summit that are specific,
measurable, assignable, realistic, and timely (SMART)
|
~US$1 billion
|
donors’ nutrition-specific disbursements in 2013, up from US$0.5
billion in 2012
|
~US$5 billion
|
donors’
nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive official development assistance
(ODA) disbursements, in 2013; equal to 4 percent of ODA
|
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