Malnourishment

The U.N. Children’s Fund reported that 83 million children – more that 40 percent of all young children in Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan – are undernourished. 72 million children are undernourished in other parts of the world.

“The paradox of South Asia is that despite healthy levels of economic growth in many countries, chronic undernutrition remains persistently and unacceptably high,” said UNICEF’s regional director for South Asia, Daniel Toole. “Without strategic investments in nutrition, economic growth alone cannot and will not make a lasting difference.”