India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

INTRODUCTION

The back-to-back Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) conducted during August 2022 - July 2023 and August 2023 - July 2024 collected information on consumption of food items by the members of the households during specified reference periods. Based on the food consumption data and utilizing the nutrient content values of different food items estimates of per day per capita and per day per consumer unit intake of calorie, protein and fat has been generated at various levels of disaggregation, namely, State, sector, fractile classes of Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE), etc. These are collated and published in the form of a report entitled 'Nutritional Intake in India'.

It has been a practice in the National Statistics Office (NSO) to bring out a comprehensive report providing information on nutritional intake by the Indian population with detailed break-up of estimates of per capita intake of energy (Calorie), protein and fat and its distribution over households and persons. Till date, five such reports based on NSS's 50th round (1993-94), 55th round (1999-2000), 61st round (2004-05), 66th round (2009-10) and 68th round (2011-12) consumer expenditure surveys have been published. Following the tradition and also to meet the requirement of vital information on nutritional intake of different segments of the population for policymakers, researchers, analysts etc. this report is being published.

IMPORTANT FINDINGS:

A similar pattern in the average per day per capita and per consumer unit calorie intake is observed in rural and urban India in 2022-23 and 2023-24. The average per capita per day calorie intake in rural India was 2233 Kcal and 2212 Kcal in rural India 2022-23 and 2023-24 respectively while the corresponding figures for the two years in urban India were 2250 Kcal and 2240 Kcal respectively. An increase in average per capita per day and per consumer unit per day calorie intake is observed for the bottom five fractile classes in rural India and for the bottom six fractile classes for urban in 2023-24 from 2022-23. A wide variation both in average per capita per day calorie intake and average per consumer unit per day calorie intake is observed among the major states in 2022-23 as well as in 2023-24. With an increase in the Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE), the average calorie intake also increases in rural as well as urban India. I. AVERAGE NUTRIENT INTAKE

The average per capita per day calorie intake and per consumer unit per day calorie intake for all-India across both the periods 2022-23 & 2023-24 is given below in Table 1:

Table 1: Average daily per capita and per consumer unit intake of calorie, protein and fat in 2022-23 & 2023-24: All-India

Table Omitted (The document can be viewed at https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2141561 )

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