UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradesh, situated in the northern part of India, accounts for 7.3 percent of the country’s area, includes 75 districts subdivided into 822 blocks, 97,914 populated villages, and 915 cities and towns (Uttar Pradesh State Government 2017). Uttar Pradesh is home to more than 199 million people (16.17 percent of the population of India) of which 69.72 percent are literate. The state has a sex ratio of 912 females per 1,000 males (Census of India 2011).

Our knowledge products related to Uttar Pradesh include the following:

• 2022: Read our State Nutrition Profile for Uttar 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 Uttar Pradesh.
• 2017: A Policy Note (National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 (2005-06) & 4 (2015-16)) that examines trends in undernutrition in Uttar Pradesh between 2006 and 2016, and district-level 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 Uttar Pradesh’s districts, please access District Nutrition Profiles (DNPs) for each district in UP below.