Indian states ranking by underweight people

This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of percentage of people having a Body Mass Index lower than normal.

People with low Body Mass Index (BMI)

States Males (%) Males Rank Females (%) Females Rank
Tripura 36.3 1 32.1 8
Madhya Pradesh 34.3 2 38.1 5
Rajasthan 31.8 3 31.6 10
Assam 31.4 4 34.5 7
Jharkhand 31.4 4 40.6 2
Uttar Pradesh 30.7 6 32.1 9
Odisha 30.1 7 38.5 4
Chhattisgarh 29.8 8 39 3
Arunachal Pradesh 29.6 9 35.7 6
Bihar 26.7 10 41 1
Gujarat 26.2 11 30.3 12
Whole INDIA 26.1 31
Haryana 24.8 12 25.8 15
Karnataka 23.5 13 29.4 13
Maharashtra 22.9 14 30.6 11
Andhra Pradesh 22.8 15 28.8 14
Uttarakhand 19.8 16 23.7 16
Jammu and Kashmir 17.9 17 19.3 19
Himachal Pradesh 17.8 18 22.3 17
Tamil Nadu 16.5 19 21.5 18
Goa 14.8 20 18.5 20
West Bengal 11.6 21 13.5 21
Manipur 10.2 22 11.9 24
Kerala 9.9 23 10.5 26
Nagaland 8.8 24 13.9 21
Meghalaya 6 25 11.7 25
Sikkim 5.2 26 7.6 27
Mizoram 4 27 13.3 23
Punjab 2.2 28 2.0 28

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