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Table 1 State variation of childhood anaemia

From: “Childhood Anemia in India: an application of a Bayesian geo-additive model”

Region/State

Percentage of children

(Anaemic)

Number of cases with

anaemic children

Northern

62.2

21,765

 Chandigarh

72.7

112

 Haryana

72.3

4725

 Himachal Pradesh

58.1

1324

 Jammu and Kashmir

59.6

3986

 Delhi

61.3

627

 Punjab

57.3

2544

 Rajasthan

60.9

8447

Central

63.0

41,351

 Chhattisgarh

42.9

3060

 Madhya Pradesh

69.7

14,015

 Uttar Pradesh

63.8

21,468

 Uttarakhand

59.1

2808

Eastern

61.2

27,158

 Bihar

63.6

13,332

 Jharkhand

70.1

7002

 Odisha

48.6

4393

 West Bengal

55.6

2431

North-Eastern

35.8

10,504

 Arunachal Pradesh

53.3

1956

 Assam

35.7

2838

 Manipur

24.2

1153

 Meghalaya

48.7

1706

 Mizoram

23.9

975

 Nagaland

26.2

908

 Sikkim

56.6

457

 Tripura

48.1

511

Southern

54.7

10,806

 Andhra Pradesh

58.2

1246

 Karnataka

62.1

3818

 Kerala

36.0

742

 Puducherry

43.8

408

 Tamil Nadu

51.5

3461

 Telangana

64.3

1131

Western

58.2

8524

 Dadra & Nagar Haveli

83.9

220

 Daman & Diu

72.4

205

 Goa

48.3

174

 Gujarat

63.7

3839

 Maharashtra

52.9

4086

India

57.6

120,108