Table 2 Prevalence of anaemia according to severity in pregnant women (15–49 yrs)
States | NFHS-3 (2005–2006) | NFHS-4 (2015–2016) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mild Anaemia | Moderate Anaemia | Severe Anaemia | Mild Anaemia | Moderate Anaemia | Severe Anaemia | |
Andhra Pradesh | 28.8 | 26.2 | 3.4 | 26.0 | 25.0 | 1.9 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 28.2 | 23.8 | 1.1 | 20.0 | 13.7 | 0.1 |
Assam | 25.2 | 40.6 | 6.8 | 23.2 | 21.0 | 0.6 |
Bihar | 28.8 | 29.9 | 1.7 | 28.4 | 28.9 | 1.1 |
Chhattisgarh | 26.8 | 34.2 | 2.7 | 23.0 | 17.8 | 0.7 |
Delhi | 15.3 | 13.4 | 1.2 | |||
Goa | 22.9 | 19.0 | 0.0 | 16.9 | 4.1 | 5.7 |
Gujarat | 25.9 | 31.0 | 3.8 | 21.5 | 28.3 | 1.5 |
Haryana | 26.0 | 43.1 | 1.9 | 23.6 | 29.4 | 2.0 |
Himachal Pradesh | 27.5 | 12.8 | 0.0 | 23.5 | 26.1 | 0.8 |
Jharkhand | 28.4 | 40.1 | 1.1 | 27.4 | 33.8 | 1.3 |
Karnataka | 27.7 | 32.0 | 3.0 | 25.5 | 18.5 | 1.4 |
Kerala | 19.7 | 15.5 | 0.0 | 16.6 | 6.0 | 0.0 |
Madhya Pradesh | 23.6 | 33.1 | 2.0 | 25.5 | 27.5 | 1.7 |
Maharashtra | 25.9 | 30.5 | 1.9 | 26.2 | 22.5 | 0.6 |
Manipur | 19.9 | 16.7 | 0.6 | 16.0 | 8.8 | 0.4 |
Meghalaya | 27.4 | 36.0 | 0.6 | 23.9 | 23.3 | 2.3 |
Mizoram | 24.9 | 23.3 | 1.0 | 18.3 | 7.1 | 1.2 |
Nagaland | – | – | – | 16.5 | 12.0 | 0.5 |
Odisha | 37.1 | 29.6 | 2.0 | 24.0 | 22.7 | 0.8 |
Punjab | 15.4 | 22.3 | 3.9 | 22.5 | 19.4 | 0.1 |
Rajasthan | 23.7 | 35.3 | 3.1 | 20.3 | 24.7 | 1.6 |
Sikkim | 22.6 | 36.9 | 2.6 | 15.3 | 8.2 | 0.0 |
Tamil Nadu | 28.2 | 27.7 | 1.9 | 23.7 | 20.0 | 0.6 |
Telangana | – | – | – | 21.4 | 26.7 | 1.6 |
Tripura | 24.7 | 32.8 | 1.5 | 26.7 | 27.8 | 0.0 |
Uttarakhand | 20.5 | 28.2 | 3.5 | 18.3 | 24.3 | 1.3 |
Uttar Pradesh | 23.2 | 27.5 | 1.7 | 22.8 | 26.0 | 2.1 |
West Bengal | 26.4 | 35.1 | 1.7 | 29.2 | 23.8 | 0.6 |
India | 25.8 | 30.6 | 2.2 | 24.5 | 24.6 | 1.3 |