OBJECTIVES: Anemia is one of the most commonly occurring hematological disorder in Indian women. The estimation of anemia prevalence in Indian women helps the health policy makers. The objective of the present study is to prevalence, severity of anemia among women in India. METHODS: A systematic literature search was performed in PubMed and Elsevier ScienceDirect, Cochrane library databases and Google scholar (from 1990 to April 2015). All the eligible studies with full text and satisfy the inclusion criteria were included for study. Study consist of women in age group 15-45 were included for study. According to WHO, anemia in non-pregnant women age 15-45 years were classified as mild (110-119g/l), moderate (80-109g/l) and severe (less than 80g/l) on the basis of hemoglobin concentration. RESULTS: A total of six studies satisfy the inclusion criteria were included for study purpose. It includes a total of 4684 anemic women ranging from 26 to 3835 from different rural and urban parts of India. The overall prevalence of anemia from the pooled estimates was 53.2% (95% CI, 41.1-64.9). Prevalence in rural and urban parts of India was found to be 55.2% (95% CI, 12.6-41.5) and 49.5% (95% CI 32.9-66.3), respectively. Among all the anemic patients cases, mild 31.6% (95% CI, 30.2-33.0) contributes maximum number of patients followed by moderate 19.3% (95% CI, 18.1-20.6), and severe 2.2% (95% CI, 1.8-2.7).  CONCLUSIONS: Anemia is highly prevalent in Indian women. Nearly equal prevalence was reported from both rural and urban women population. Mild form of anemia was found to be more prevalent.