4th Report - The World Nutrition Situation: Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle (IFPRI - UNSSCN, 2000, 136 p.): APPENDICES: APPENDIX 5: LATEST NATIONAL PREVALENCE OF STUNTING AND UNDERWEIGHT IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

4th Report - The World Nutrition Situation: Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle (IFPRI - UNSSCN, 2000, 136 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

APPENDIX 5: LATEST NATIONAL PREVALENCE OF STUNTING AND UNDERWEIGHT IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Country	Year of survey	Stunting (%)	Underweight (%)
Afghanistan	1997	47.6	49.3
Algeria	1995	18.3	12.8
Argentina	1994	4.7	1.9
Armenia	1998	12.3	3.3
Australia	1995-96	0.0	0.0
Azerbaijan	1996	22.2	10.1
Bahrain	1989	9.9	7.2
Bangladesh	1996-97	54.6	56.3
Barbados	1981	7.0	5.9
Belize	1992	n/a	6.2
Benin	1996	25.0	29.2
Bhutan	1986-88	56.1	37.9
Bolivia	1998	26.8	7.6
Brazil	1996	10.5	5.7
Burkina Faso	1992-93	33.3	32.7
Burundi	1987	47.4	37.5
Cameroon	1998	29.3	22.2
Cape Verde	1994	16.2	13.5
Central African Republic	1995	28.4	23.2
Chad	1996-97	40.1	38.8
Chile	1996	2.3	0.8
China	1992	31.4	17.4
Colombia	1995	15.0	8.4
Comoros	1995-96	33.8	25.8
Congo	1987	27.5	23.9
Congo (Democratic Republic of the)	1995	45.2	34.4
Costa Rica	1996	6.1	5.1
Cote d'Ivoire	1994	24.4	23.8
Croatia	1995-96	0.8	0.6
Cuba	1993	n/a	1.5
Czech Republic	1991	1.9	1.0
Djibouti	1996	25.7	18.2
Dominican Republic	1996	10.7	5.9
Ecuador	1986	34.0	16.5
Egypt	1997-98	24.9	11.7
El Salvador	1993	23.1	11.2
Eritrea	1995-96	38.4	43.7
Ethiopia	1992	64.2	47.7
Fiji	1993	2.7	7.9
Gambia	1996	30.1	26.2
Ghana	1993-94	25.9	27.3
Guatemala	1995	49.7	26.6
Guyana	1981	20.7	18.3
Haiti	1994-95	31.9	27.5
Honduras	1996	38.9	25.4
Hungary	1980-88	2.9	2.2
India	1992-93	51.8	53.4
Indonesia	1995	42.2	34.0
Iran, Islamic Republic of	1995	18.9	15.7
Iraq	1991	21.8	11.9
Jamaica	1993	9.6	10.2
Japan	1978-81	5.6	3.7
Jordan	1997	7.8	5.1
Kazakhstan	1995	15.8	8.3
Kenya	1994	33.6	22.5
Kiribati	1985	28.3	12.9
Kuwait	1996-97	3.2	1.7
Kyrgyzstan	1997	24.8	11.0
Lao People's Democratic Republic	1994	47.3	40.0
Lebanon	1996	12.2	3.0
Lesotho	1996	44.0	16.0
Liberia	1976	36.9	20.3
Libyan A.J.	1995	15.1	4.7
Madagascar	1997	48.3	40.0
Malawi	1995	48.3	29.9
Malaysia	1995	n/a	20.1
Maldives	1995	26.9	43.2
Mali	1995-96	30.1	40.0
Mauritania	1995-96	44.0	23.0
Mauritius	1995	9.7	14.9
Mexico	1988	22.8	14.2
Mongolia	1992	26.4	12.3
Morocco	1992	24.2	9.5
Mozambique	1997	35.9	26.1
Myanmar	1994	44.6	42.9
Namibia	1992	28.5	26.2
Nepal	1996	48.4	46.9
Nicaragua	1997-98	24.9	12.2
Niger	1998	41.1	49.6
Nigeria	1993	37.7	39.1
Oman	1995	23.0	23.3
Pakistan	1990-91	49.6	38.2
Panama	1992	9.9	6.1
Papua New Guinea	1982-83	43.2	29.9
Paraguay	1990	13.9	3.7
Peru	1996	25.8	7.8
Philippines	1993	32.7	29.6
Qatar	1995	8.1	5.5
Romania	1991	7.8	5.7.
Russian Federation	1995	12.7	3.0
Rwanda	1992	48.7	29.4
STome and Principe	1986	25.9	16.6
Senegal	1996	22.9	22.3
Seychelles	1987-88	5.1	5.7
Sierra Leone	1990	34.7	28.7
Solomon Islands	1989	27.3	21.3
South Africa	1994-95	22.8	9.2
Sri Lanka	1993	23.8	37.7
Sudan	1992-93	34.3	33.9
Swaziland	1983-84	30.3	9.7
Syrian Arab Republic	1995	20.8	12.9
Thailand	1987	21.5	25.3
Togo	1996	21.7	25.1
Tonga	1986	1.3	n/a
Trinidad and Tobago	1987	4.8	6.7
Tunisia	1994-95	22.5	9.0
Turkey	1993	20.5	10.4
United Republic of Tanzania	1996	43.4	30.6
Uganda	1995	38.3	25.5
United States of America	1988-94	2.1	1.4
Uruguay	1992-93	9.5	4.4
Uzbekistan	1996	31.3	18.8
Vanuatu	1983	19.1	19.7
Venezuela	1997	14.9	5.1
Viet Nam	1998	35.9	39.8
Yemen	1997	51.7	46.1
Yugoslavia	1996	6.8	1.6
Zambia	1996-97	42.4	23.5
Zimbabwe	1994	21.4	15.5

Source: 1.
Note: n/a = not available.

REFERENCE

1. WHO (2000) Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Geneva: WHO.