A child looks out from his line home, amid the country's economic crisis, in Bogawantalawa, Sri Lanka, on April 29.NEW DELHI – The number of children grappling with various forms of undernutrition in Sri Lanka increased for the first time in at least six years in 2022, a government report and data from the health ministry indicate.
More than 43.4 per cent of the country's children under five years of age are suffering from nutrition problems, according to the report released in October, with 42.9 per cent suffering from some form of undernutrition. Around 1.4 million children under the age of five were registered with the country's Public Health Midwives body and the report surveyed just under that number.
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