4th Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle (ACC/SCN, 2000, 138 p.): APPENDICES: Appendix 8: Prevalence and Numbers of Overweight Preschool Children in 1995

4th Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle (ACC/SCN, 2000, 138 p.)

APPENDICES

		Appendix 1: Conceptualizing Nutrition Problems in Society
		Appendix 2: Countries in the UN Regions and Sub-Regions
		Appendix 3: Methods to Estimate Trends in Undernutrition Prevalence: A Review
		Appendix 4: Statistical Notes for Sections 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3
		Appendix 5: Latest National Prevalence of Stunting and Underweight in Preschool Children
		Appendix 6: Explaining Trends in Child Underweight in the Developing World
		Appendix 7: Data Employed for Analysis of Child Underweight Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa
		Appendix 8: Prevalence and Numbers of Overweight Preschool Children in 1995
		Appendix 9: Countries Classified by WHO Regions
		Appendix 10: National Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
		Appendix 11: Summary of Five Studies of the Social Impacts of the Indonesian Crisis
		Appendix 12: Some Food and Nutrition Information and Data Resources on the Internet

		Overweight (> +2 SD weight-for-height)
UN regions and sub-regions		Countries^a(number/total)	Population coverage (%)	%	Numbers affected (000s)
Africa		30/53	70.9	n/a	n/a
	Eastern Africa	13/17	68.0	n/a	n/a
	Middle Africa	2/9	20.7	n/a	n/a
	Northern Africa	4/6	77.2	8.1	1,645
	Southern Africa	2/5	88.2	6.5	375
	Western Africa	9/16	90.7	2.6	888
Asia		26/46	92.4	2.9	10,643
	Eastern Asia	2/4	94.4	4.3	4,719
	South Central Asia	11/14	98.9	2.1	3,719
	South-Eastern Asia	4/10	82.5	2.4	1,327
	Western Asia	9/18	54.8	n/a	n/a
Latin America and the Caribbean		19/33	94.1	4.4	2,429
	Caribbean	4/13	64.8	n/a	n/a
	Central America	6/8	97.9	3.5	564
	South America	9/12	95.5	4.9	1,729
Developing countries		78/147	87.8	3.3	17,561

Source: 1.
Note: n/a = not available.
^a Number of countries that have national surveys out of the total number of countries for each sub-region.

REFERENCE

1. WHO (2000) Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition: Forecast of Trends. Document WHO/NHD/00.3. Geneva: WHO.