Rising numbers of children and teenagers are underweight, says government
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/22
By: Iris Hsu, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
School classroom. (By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Ministry of Education revealed that, according to their survey figures from July 2018, an estimated 205, 000 K-12 and high school students in Taiwan are underweight.
Based upon survey results from school year 2013 to 2017, the ratio of underweight primary schoolers has risen from 6.9 percent to 8.2 percent, adding nearly 5,000 children to the category.
In the middle school section, underweight figures have also increased from 6.3 percent to 6.9 percent, making an estimate of nearly 45,000 middle school pupils underweight.
8.85 percent of the high school students who were surveyed were underweight, compared to 8.26 percent in 2013. [FULL STORY]
