ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Arunachal Pradesh, situated in the north-east of India, accounts for 2.5 percent of the area of the country and includes 21 districts. The state is home to more than 1 million people (0.08 percent of the population of India) of which 65.4 percent are literate. Arunachal Pradesh has a sex ratio of 938 females per 1,000 males (Census of India 2011). The state is largely forested and is known to be the richest bio-geographical province of the Himalayan zone (Government of Arunachal Pradesh 2017).

• 2022: Read our State Nutrition Profile for Arunachal Pradesh (NFHS-3 (2005-2006), 4(2015-16) & 5 (2019-2020), a that describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions from 2006 to 2020. The findings are based on estimates from unit-level data and/or data from national and state reports for NFHS-3 (2005-2006) and NFHS-4 (2015-2016), and data from state factsheets and reports for NFHS-5 (2019-2021). In addition to standard prevalence-based analyses, this State Nutrition Profile includes headcount-based analyses aligned to POSHAN Abhiyaan’s goals.
• 2018: For deeper insights into the coverage of key nutrition and health interventions in the state, with district-wise status, read our Coverage Data Note (NFHS-4 (2015-16)) that describes the coverage of a set of key nutrition and health interventions and highlights the key areas of action to improve nutrition in Arunachal Pradesh.
• 2017: A Policy Note ((NFHS)-3 (2005-06) & 4 (2015-16)) to examine the trends in undernutrition in Arunachal Pradesh, regional variability in the major determinants of nutrition and the coverage of key nutrition and health interventions.

For a deeper view of malnutrition and its multiple determinants in Arunachal Pradesh’s districts, please access District Nutrition Profiles (DNPs) for each district below.