More than half of India's children and women anaemic: NFHS-5 survey

On a positive note, number of women aged 15-49 having bank or savings account they themselves used, rises to 78.6% compared to 58% in previous survey; improvement in nutrition among kids and adults

Anaemia among children and adults has worsened, with more than half of women and children reported to be anaemic in the fifth national family health survey 2019-21 of fourteen states released on Wednesday.

Among children from six months to five years of age, more than 67 per cent were found to be anaemic compared to 58.6 per cent in the last survey conducted in 2015-16. More women and men in the age group 15 to 49 years and 15 to 19 years were found anaemic compared to the last survey. Cases of anaemia were much higher among women - 57