Malnutrition in the OIC Member
Countries: A Trap for Poverty
COMCEC
Stunting Wasting Overweight Anaemia
Survey 2014 DHS 2014 DHS 2014 DHS 2011 DHS
Region: Dhaka 33.9 11.9 2. 1 47.7
Region: Khulna 28.1 13.5 0.4 54.2
Region: Rajshahi/Rangpur 33.5 17.5 1.1 53.3
Region: Rangpur 36 17.7 1.3 57.7
Region: Rajshahi 31.1 17.3 0.9 49.3
Mean 36.1 14.3 1.4 51.3
Source: Authors' calculations based on BDHS (2011,2014).
Trends in Malnutrition
Bangladesh has made impressive progress in reducing stunting, from 60% in 1997 to 36% in
2014. urther shows that these progresses have been mostly parallel across wealth
groups. Heady et al. (2015] point out that Bangladesh has one of the best record of stunting
reduction in the world.
Over the same period, however, the prevalence of wasting has remained stubbornly high. After
a large decrease between 1997 and 2000 (from 21% to 12.3%), the proportion of wasted
children has hovered between 12 and 17%, stabilising at 14.3% in 2014. hows that
this lack of progress has been shared by all wealth groups, except the middle one which
experienced a substantial drop between 2011 and 2014 (from 17.7% to 12.8%).
Figure 32: Evolution of Child Malnutrition between 1997 and 2014, Bangladesh
■Children stunted ■Children wasted ■Children overweight
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60
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40
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20 — •>..20,6
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1997 2000 2004 2007 2011 2014
Source: ICF International, 2015. The DHS Program STATcompiler. Funded by USAID.
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