Sentence examples for worldwide underweight from inspiring English sources

Paradoxically although excess weight in children is increasing worldwide, underweight remains a serious health problem in low income countries [ 5].

Up to 28% of worldwide neonatal deaths are attributed to prematurity, and up to 80% of neonatal deaths occur among children born at low birth weight [ 3, 4], a highly prevalent condition specifically in developing countries where 16% of live births are underweight [ 27], forming about 95% of worldwide underweight births.

There was a gradual increase in the number of people worldwide who were underweight from 1990, peaking in 2008.

The prevalence of hunger also declined in sub-Saharan Africa, although not at a pace that was suffi ciently fast to compensate for population growth and to put the region on track to meet the MDG target". The world still has a long way to go to meeting MDG1; the prevalence of underweight children worldwide fell from 31% in 1990 to 26% in 2008, according to a Unicef report published this month.

Today, approximately 462 million adults worldwide continue to be underweight, while almost two billion are overweight or obese.

India alone is responsible for 15% of all maternal deaths and 20% of all infant mortality worldwide, with many babies born underweight, weak, and susceptible to other diseases.

In 2016, 75 (44-117) million girls and 117 (70-178) million boys worldwide were moderately or severely underweight.

Nutrition security should be our new goal: today there is a new challenge; not just to address food security (India is still home to a quarter of all undernourished people worldwide and 28% of children are born underweight) by increasing crop yield but also to attain nutrition security.

Over half a million women die annually of preventable and treatable complications in pregnancy and childbirth; there has been little progress in halving the proportion of underweight children; and AIDS deaths worldwide rose to 2.9 million last year from 2.2 million in 2001, while more than 15 million children have lost one or both parents to the disease.

Some 300 million children worldwide are malnourished and 27 per cent of all children under five are underweight for their age.

Cigarette smoking has been identified as the second leading risk factor for death from all causes worldwide [ 12, 13] and being overweight or obese (and possibly underweight) are associated with increased all-cause mortality [ 4, 9].