This fact sheet presents preliminary findings from the fourth round of the Young Lives survey of children in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2013. It reports on some of the changes that have taken places in key nutrition indicators for our sample children over the eleven years since the first round of data collection in 2002. We see how children’s growth trajectories develop over time: almost a third of the sample children continue to show signs of stunting (chronic malnutrition), especially among the poorest and most marginalised children and in rural areas.

This fact sheet presents preliminary findings from the fourth round of the Young Lives survey of children in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2013. It reports on children’s learning and some of the changes that have taken places in key education indicators for our sample children over the eleven years since the first round of data collection in 2002. Enrolment is now almost universal and only 3% of children are not attending school at age 12. This improvement in access to elementary-level education has particularly benefited girls and Scheduled Caste children.