Effect of Nutrition on School Performance in a Primary School in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract

Malnutrition is widespread in Bangladesh and children are generally very adversely affected. In Bangladesh 59 per cent of the children aged 6 to 71 months suffer from chronic protein-energy malnutrition (stunted) and eight per cent suffer from acute protein-energy malnutrition (wasted). About 76 per cent of the children suffer from iron deficiency anaemia. One million out of the 23 million children in the country suffer from vitamin A deficiency, 30,000 of whom become blind every year with one-half of the blinded children dying within one year of blindness.