Survey of Nutrition and Social Development in the World

Paying attention to social development in the world has been dramatically upward during the last 25 years. For the first time United Nations paid attentions to social aspects of development (1968). Before this period, the development concept was limited solely on the economy field and just rise in per capita income and economic growth was considered as a symbol of communities' development. A developed government and community is one which has fulfilled minimum needs of the residents in the areas of housing, education, nutrition and health care, there is no doubt that the nutrition of each individual is associated with the state of his mental and physical health. This research has been done on determining nutritional indicators and social development indicators and the relationship between them in 1391. The population of this research is all the countries of the world. To select some cases to study, we needed some countries having access to statistics of target indicators of nutrition and social development. The study samples were selected using sampling method. According to sampling method and sample selection criteria and according to UNICEF website in 2006-2010, data required for this research was formally announced only in 23 countries. SPSS software was used to analyze data. Mean and standard deviation from descriptive tests and, Pearson correlation coefficient from inferential tests were used for significance correlation. The results suggest that there is a significant relationship between nutrition and social development.