ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS

The union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a group of islands located in the Bay of Bengal, off the south eastern coast of India. It covers an area of 8,249 sq km and has three districts and nine tehsils (Andaman and Nicobar Administration 2019). According to 2011 Census, the total population is 379,944.

Our knowledge products related to Andaman and Nicobar Islands include the following:

• 2022: Read our State Nutrition Profile for Andaman and Nicobar Islands (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.

For a deeper view of malnutrition and its multiple determinants in Andaman and Nicobar Island's districts, please access District Nutrition Profiles (DNPs) for each district  below.