TABLE 3.2 CHANGES IN WASTING RATES Earlier estimated wasting rate ≥ 5%
Wasting rate is increasing
Albania, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Phil- ippines, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic
Wasting rate is constant or decreasing
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic People’s Rep. of Korea, Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia
Source: UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank (2014). Data are from 1985–2013.
Note: Categories are based on the past two available national survey estimates. Countries are characterized as having an increasing wasting rate if the wasting rate in the second survey was higher than that in the first survey.
FIGURE 3.3 PERCENTAGE OF INFANTS AGE 0–5 MONTHS WHO ARE EXCLUSIVELY BREASTFED, BY REGION, AROUND 2000 AND 2012
AROUND 2000 (1998–2002) AROUND 2012 (2008–2012)
52 41 36 30 31 20 45 36 29 22 17 11 32 44 47 49 42 36 31 30 25 25 37 41 Earlier estimated wasting rate < 5%
Azerbaijan, Belize, Bhutan, Cabo Verde, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ja- maica, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malawi, Mozam- bique, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gabon, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Panama, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Source: UNICEF (2014e), based on Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICSs), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs), and other nationally representative surveys, 2008–2012, with the exception of India, for which data are from 2005–2006.
FIGURE 3.4 AVERAGE INCIDENCE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BY UN SUBREGION (%) AFRICA ASIA 27 EUROPE
LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND NORTHERN AMERICA
16 14 12 11 13 10 6 7 11 9 6 7 6 7 8 8 7 12 11 7 13 OCEANIA
Source: UNICEF (2014e), based on Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys, and other nationally representative surveys, 1995–2012. Notes: Data show the population-weighted average incidence of low birth weight. Data exclude China.
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Africa Asia
Latin America and Caribbean
Eastern Africa Middle Africa Western Africa Southern Africa South-Eastern Asia Western Asia Caribbean Central America World Eastern Africa Middle Africa Northern Africa Southern Africa Western Africa Central Asia
South-Eastern Asia Eastern Asia
Southern Asia Western Asia Eastern Europe Northern Europe Southern Europe Western Europe Caribbean Central America South America Northern America Australia & New Zealand Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia
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