Eight interactive dashboards exploring what Indian households eat, what they spend, what they can afford, how diverse and nutrient-adequate their diets are, how macronutrient composition varies, and how dietary patterns correlate with health outcomes — and what has changed over the last decade.
Each dashboard addresses a distinct dimension of food security, nutrition, and household expenditure — from affordability and consumption patterns to dietary diversity, micronutrient adequacy, expenditure composition, and diet–health correlations.
What do Indian households eat, and how has this changed over the last decade? Tracks mean consumption quantities and the proportion of households consuming each of ten major food groups — across demographic groups and the expenditure distribution.
Measures dietary diversity using the Shannon Index — tracking how evenly household diets are distributed across food sources, by state, demographic group, and income level.
Explores the prevalence of diet affordability and the expenditure gap across states, socio-demographic groups, and the income distribution — with and without government food support.
How much do Indian households consume beyond recommended daily intake levels? Quantifies excess consumption of cereals & millets and fats & oils across demographic groups and expenditure deciles.
How do Indian households derive their calories, protein, and fat? Traces macronutrient intake and caloric shares across states, expenditure deciles, and demographic groups using HCES data.
Measures micronutrient intake and the prevalence of inadequacy across Indian households — by state, income level, demographic group, and more. Benchmarked against ICMR-NIN RDAs.
How do Indian households allocate their spending across food, consumables, and durables — and how has this changed over a decade? Interactive Sankey diagrams show expenditure flows for every state and UT, with interstate MPCE comparisons in nominal and real terms across income classes.
How do dietary diversity, iron intake, and excess food consumption correlate with health outcomes? Interactive correlogram linking HCES 2023-24 dietary indicators with NFHS-4 & NFHS-5 state-level health data — stunting, anemia, BMI, hypertension, and blood glucose — with income decile breakdowns.
These dashboards draw on unit-level data from India's Household Consumer Expenditure Surveys (HCES) conducted by the National Sample Survey Office — comparing the 68th Round (2011‑12) with the latest round (2023‑24).
Dietary benchmarks follow the Indian Council of Medical Research – National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) guidelines for a reference adult woman (55 kg, moderate activity, non-pregnant, non-lactating), enabling consistent comparison across dimensions.
The aim is to make rigorous, nationally representative data on Indian diets accessible and interactive — supporting evidence-based policy conversations on food security, nutrition, and public health.
Disaggregated data for all 35 states and union territories, enabling sub-national comparisons and policy targeting.
Rural vs. urban, religion, social group, household size, and gender of household head — across all dashboards.
10 expenditure deciles reveal how diet quality, diversity, and affordability vary across the income gradient.
Side-by-side comparison across two HCES rounds reveals how Indian diets have transformed over a decade.