how much population of pregnant women and nursing mothers and children under the age of 5 years under food insecurity according to NHFS during 1998-99

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Almost half of children (47 percent) under three years of age are under-weight, a measure of short and long term under nutrition. A similar propor-tion are malnourished to the extent that they are stunted (46 percent). Severe underweight is observed for 18 percent of children and severe stunting for23 percent. Sixteen percent of children are excessively thin (wasted). Rura lchildren are much more likely than urban children to be undernourished.While as in women In India, more than one out of three women age 15–49 is undernourished .Almost half of women in Orissa are undernourished and twoout of five or more are undernourished in West Bengal and Maharashtra.

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