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Unhealthy, processed food has become much more accessible following India's continued integration in global food markets. This, combined with rising middle class incomes, is increasing the average caloric intake per individual among middle class and high income households. [2] Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and NGOs ...
Undercounting of cases and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in India is not unique to the country. [26] [19] Journalists, [27] mathematicians, [11] epidemiologists, [28] statisticians, and scientists have attempted, [29] according to their expertise, to arrive at a truer number of the actual cases and deaths. The aim of this is to ultimately ...
This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health Organization ... India: 7.21 173 Uganda: 6.88 174 South Korea: 6.73 175 Nepal: 6.58 176
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
Reporting standards vary enormously in different countries. No statistics are particularly accurate, but case and death rates in India (South Asia) and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular are probably much higher than reported. [27] [28] COVID-19 cases and deaths by region, in absolute figures and rates per million inhabitants as of 25 December ...
The market opportunity is huge in the world's most populous country, which has high obesity rates, especially among women, and the second-highest number of people with type-2 diabetes globally.
[6] [7] In October 2021, the World Health Organization estimated 4.7 million excess deaths, both directly and indirectly related to COVID-19 to have taken place in India. [8] [9] The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the ...
The national average HDI for India in 2008 was 0.467. [1] By 2010, its average HDI had risen to 0.519. [2] [3] UNDP, the sponsor of the Human Development Index methodology since 1990, reported India's HDI to be 0.554 for 2012, [4] an 18% increase over its 2008 HDI. The United Nations declared India's HDI to be 0.586 in 2014, [5] a 5.77% ...