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Table 3 Percentage of children stunted and underweight by welfare card and asset poverty in states of India, 2015–16

From: Malnutrition and poverty in India: does the use of public distribution system matter?

States

Percentage of children stunted

Percentage of children underweight

Real Poor (Asset deprived and have welfare card)

Excluded Poor (Asset deprived and do not have welfare card

Privileged Non-Poor (Asset non-deprived and have welfare card

Non-Poor (Asset non-deprived and do not have welfare card

Real Poor (Asset deprived and have welfare card)

Excluded Poor (Asset deprived and do not have welfare card

Privileged Non-Poor (Asset non-deprived and have welfare card

Non-Poor (Asset non-deprived and do not have welfare card

Kerala

24.90

24.25

23.26

18.25

22.32

25.54

19.84

14.08

Telangana

46.34

25.56

28.00

19.66

47.70

37.22

28.48

18.65

Chhattisgarh

43.30

32.74

36.54

29.11

45.34

41.66

34.36

28.44

Andhra Pradesh

42.36

33.88

31.38

27.79

42.35

50.65

31.65

27.99

Arunachal Pradesh

34.68

34.71

25.22

25.16

26.34

27.10

14.64

13.34

Sikkim

41.49

34.97

30.44

24.77

23.46

12.06

15.60

12.05

Tamil Nadu

34.71

35.46

30.56

24.85

35.00

31.64

23.34

22.15

Manipur

32.85

35.67

27.43

22.40

18.10

16.99

13.98

10.20

Tripura

32.01

37.99

19.87

19.33

29.71

34.71

25.33

18.80

Jammu and Kashmir

37.19

39.30

30.04

23.48

26.15

28.07

16.25

14.02

Nagaland

31.02

39.82

28.96

27.12

24.07

25.01

16.56

15.73

West Bengal

39.84

40.04

33.32

27.97

39.68

45.33

28.29

26.36

Punjab

42.93

40.47

24.37

24.63

30.11

35.50

23.00

20.15

Mizoram

36.94

41.15

27.48

21.83

16.39

18.85

13.97

8.31

Odisha

44.28

43.56

32.17

23.11

45.75

43.87

31.30

23.09

Uttarakhand

42.33

44.01

35.95

31.28

36.05

38.24

30.08

23.57

Himachal Pradesh

35.89

45.02

29.11

23.29

27.68

29.86

24.95

19.94

Maharashtra

44.75

45.09

36.89

29.70

51.32

49.64

35.36

31.31

Gujarat

51.23

46.56

40.48

29.96

51.95

49.09

40.65

31.31

Assam

42.07

46.74

31.37

26.94

35.19

40.43

23.12

21.74

Madhya Pradesh

48.17

47.94

39.91

35.29

50.89

48.61

40.91

35.03

Rajasthan

52.53

48.58

38.71

35.59

55.34

47.80

37.22

31.51

Karnataka

48.33

48.63

36.23

28.76

47.84

47.34

35.05

27.62

Haryana

50.38

49.48

37.02

30.40

41.11

38.57

33.80

26.68

Meghalaya

49.51

50.87

47.96

38.85

35.75

35.20

29.78

25.22

Jharkhand

52.84

53.20

45.25

36.35

56.34

55.24

46.50

38.72

Bihar

57.36

56.27

46.83

37.34

50.92

52.00

42.35

34.89

Uttar Pradesh

55.40

57.16

44.63

39.12

47.05

48.63

37.29

34.08

India

49.79

49.65

37.16

31.51

47.73

46.51

34.54

29.00

  1. *Estimates for states with sample size less than 1000 are not shown the above table but included for the India estimates