COVID-19 vaccination is a safer way to build protection as it lowers your risk of getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19. This was also reflected in GOQii’s latest India Fit Report 2022 where they ran the ‘COVID-19 Trust in Vaccines and Vaccination’ survey with over 10000+ users. GOQii's latest report tells us how 91% of Indians feel vaccination will protect them from COVID-19. Around 9% of the respondents still doubt the vaccination process. Some of the respondents thought whether it will work on upcoming variants. The report also showcased various aspects of health across parameters such as steps taken, lifestyle diseases, BMI, nutrition, water, stress, sleep etc.; all of which are classified according to gender and key cities.

On the stress and mental health status of Indians, the GOQii Survey indicates that 29.31% of Indians were suffering from depression in 2021. However, the good news is that this percentage has seen a 32% decrease since 2020 where 43% of Indians were plagued by depression. This may be due to people getting the chance to be more active as lockdowns were lifted and people literally got the chance to get back on their feet again.

Speaking about the India Fit Report, Vishal Gondal, Founder & CEO of GOQii said, “GOQii’s India Fit report 2022 has again enabled us to understand India’s health and fitness levels across the country. In the current report, our survey shows that a large majority of people trust the vaccines and the vaccination drive and are of the opinion that this will help them be safe. We analyzed that Indians have opened their eyes to the possibility of preventive healthcare, immunity building and nutrition. Our statistics show drastic improvements in people's stress levels. We are happy to see massive improvement in health scores, underscoring the proclivity towards building health and fitness”.

India Fit Report 2022 is a result of a year-long study of more than 5 million GOQii users – a first-of-its-kind report that presents a holistic overview on the health and lifestyle of Indians across different parameters such as steps taken, lifestyle diseases (Diabetes, Cardiac and Hypertension), BMI (Body Mass Index), nutrition, water, stress, sleep, gut health and immunity, smoking and alcohol consumption; all of which are classified according to gender and key cities.

As per the Health Risk Assessment (HRA) Score of the report, overall, 50.3% of Indians are either in the ‘High Risk’ or ‘Borderline’ category. This is similar to last year’s figures where 50.42% Indians fell into the ‘Unhealthy’ category. It can be observed that there is an even distribution of healthy and unhealthy individuals in India in 2021. Only 0.87% are in the High Risk segment which means that the majority of people can become healthy by making few adjustments to their lifestyle.

As far as health status by gender is concerned, men are healthier in comparison to women. Women need to pay more attention to the kind of lifestyle they are leading and start placing more priority towards their health. 61% women are in the unhealthy category, with 1.06% being in the ‘High Risk’ category. Compared to that, 47% of men are in the unhealthy category.

Indore (56%), Delhi (53%) and Kolkata (55.6%) seem to have a higher percentage of unhealthy people than the rest of the cities at. While Pune, Bhubaneswar and Ahmedabad have the highest number of healthy people. It's important to note that the majority of the metropolitan cities are not among the top five on the list. Despite the fact that they have more access to fitness and health centers. A fine example of this is Mumbai and Bengaluru where the unhealthy percentage of people stands at 53% and 50.5% respectively. One reason that could be attributed to the unhealthy status is the increase in the food delivery culture that is prevalent among the youth and office-goers. Also, with the advent of digitization in the post-covid era, Tier II and Tier III cities have become more fitness and health conscious. The fact that post-COVID, there isn't anything that smaller cities don't have access to, is reassuring. A person from a small town can find health information and various tutorials on the internet to make a healthy lifestyle change.

Over the last 5 years, lifestyle diseases namely Diabetes, Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Thyroid have been on a steady rise. Diabetes topping the chart. The incidence of people suffering from this disease has increased by 67% from 7.9% in 2017 to 13.2% in 2021.