SDG 2: Zero Hunger
SDG 2: Zero Hunger
India SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SL. No. National Indicator Highest Performing Value Lowest Performing Value View Chart Data Source of SDG India (2023-24) Data Period as per SDG India (2023-24) Periodicity as per SDG India (2023-24)
Target 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
1 2.1.1: Percentage of children aged under 5 years who are underweight 41 12.7 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (National Family Health Survey) 2019-21 3 Years
2 2.1.2: Proportion of beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act 2013 100 60.28 Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 2022-23 Annual
Target 2.2: By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
3 2.2.1: Percentage of children under age 5 years who are stunted 46.5 20 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (National Family Health Survey) 2019-21 3Years
4 2.2.2: Prevalence of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight) 25.6 8.4 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (National Family Health Survey) 2019-21 3Years
13.4 1.9
5 2.2.3: Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage) 92.8 25.8 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (National Family Health Survey) 2019-21 3Years
6 2.2.4: Percentage of women whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is below normal 26.2 4.4 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (National Family Health Survey) 2019-21 3Years
7 2.2.5: Percentage of Children age 6-59 months who are anaemic (>11.0g/dl) 93.9 39.4 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (National Family Health Survey) 2019-21 3Years
Target 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
8 2.3.1: Agriculture productivity of wheat and rice, (in kg per hectare) 4696 1299 AS Division, DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare 2022-23 Annual
4552 1759
9 2.3.2: Gross Value Added in agriculture per worker (in Rs.) --- --- National Accounts Division, NSO, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 2022-23 Annual
10 2.3.3: Ratio of institutional credit to agriculture to the agriculture output --- --- (a) Numerator: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare (b) Denominator: National Accounts Division, NSO, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 2021-22 Annual
Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
11 2.4.1: Proportion of Net Sown Area to Cultivable land 100.00 25.24 SDDS , DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare 2019-20 Annual
12 2.4.2: Percentage of farmers issued Soil Health Card --- --- INM, DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare 2019-20 Annual
13 2.4.3: Percentage of net area under organic farming 1.1310 0 INM, DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare 2021-22 Annual
Target 2.5: By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
14 2.5.1: Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities (in number) --- --- Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, DARE, (a) National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, (ICAR- NBPGR) and (b) National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, (ICAR-NBAGR) 2022-23 Annual
15 2.5.2: Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction --- --- ICAR, NBAGR, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare 2022-23 5 Years
16 2.5.3: Conservation of fish genetic resource, (in number) --- --- Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, DARE, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, (ICAR- NBFGR) 2022-23 Annual
Target 2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
17 2.a.1: The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures --- --- National Accounts Division, NSO, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 2021-22 Annual
18 2.a.2: Percentage share of expenditure in Intellectual Property Product (R&D) in agriculture to GVA in agriculture --- --- National Accounts Division, NSO, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 2021-22 Annual
Target 2.b: Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
19 National indicator is under development
Target 2.c: Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
20 2.c.1: Percentage of agriculture mandis enrolled in e-market 157 1 Agri Marketing, DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare (MoA&FW) 2022-23 Annual
Global SDG 2: Zero Hunger
SDG Global Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SL. No. Indicator Description (UN) Custodian Organization(s):
2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
1 2.1.1 Prevalence of undernourishment Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2: By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
3 2.2.1 Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5years of age United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World Health Organization (WHO) World Bank (WB)
4 2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
5 2.2.3 Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage) World Health Organization (WHO)
2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
6 2.3.1 Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
7 2.3.2 Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
8 2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
9 2.5.1 Number of plant and animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium or long-term conservation facilities Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO)
10 2.5.2 Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk, not-at-risk or at unknown level of risk of extinction Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
11 2.a.1 The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
12 2.a.2 Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2.b: Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
13 2.b.1 Agricultural export subsidies The World Trade Organization (WTO
2.c: Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
14 2.c.1 Indicator of food price anomalies Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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