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The World Bank estimates that India ranked 2nd in the world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition, where 47% of the children exhibit a degree of malnutrition. The prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world. The UN estimates that 2.1 million Indian children die before reaching the age of 5 every year - four every minute - mostly from preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea, typhoid, malaria, measles, and pneumonia. Every day, 1,000 Indian children die because of diarrhoea alone.

Childhood immunization rates in slums also tend to be lower. Poor nutritional status of small children in slums can also be understood by examining determinants leading to under nutrition, stunting, and wasting. Contagious illnesses, such as measles, spread rapidly in densely populated slums and lead to malnutrition and death. Mothers' prenatal care indicators, certainly in India, tend to be worse in slums than in rural areas - another factor leading to poor health of infants and children.