Malnutrition in the OIC Member
Countries: A Trap for Poverty
COMCEC
Table 21: Evolution ofWasting Prevalence among Under-five Children between 1990 /94 and
2010 /16 in OICCountries
Absolute change Relative change
Country (Percentage point) Country (Percentage)
Pakistan -13.5 Benin -63.4%
Afghanistan -8.7 Uzbekistan -57.9%
Benin -7.8 Pakistan -56.3%
Mauritania -7.5 Turkey -55.3%
Guyana -6.9 Guyana -51.9%
Niger -6. 6 Kazakhstan -51.6%
Uzbekistan -6.2 Iran, Islamic Rep. -50.6%
Maldives -5.9 Guinea-Bissau -49.2%
Guinea-Bissau -5.8 Afghanistan -47.8%
Burkina Faso -4.6 Morocco -41.0%
Somalia -4.4 Mauritania -39.3%
Guinea -4.1 Jordan -36.8%
Iran, Islamic Rep. -4.1 Maldives -36.6%
Nigeria -3.9 Mozambique -36.5%
Mozambique -3.5 Nigeria -33.1%
Chad -3.4 Burkina Faso -29.7%
Kazakhstan -3.3 Guinea -29.3%
Bangladesh -3 Suriname -28.6%
Cote d'Ivoire -2.7 Cote d'Ivoire -26.2%
Turkey -2. 1 Niger -26.1%
Suriname -2 Somalia -2 2 .8 %
Morocco - 1.6 Gabon -20.9%
Tajikistan -1.5 Chad -20.7%
Jordan -1.4 Azerbaijan -18.4%
Indonesia -1.4 Bangladesh -17.3%
Gabon -0.9 Tajikistan -13.2%
Azerbaijan -0.7 Tunisia -9.7%
Oman -0.3 Indonesia -9.4%
Tunisia -0.3 Oman -3.8%
Bahrain -0.2 Kyrgyz Republic -3.4%
Kyrgyz Republic -0. 1 Bahrain -2.9%
Algeria 0. 1 Turkmenistan 1.4%
Turkmenistan 0. 1 Algeria 2.5%
Cameroon 0.7 Sierra Leone 11.9%
Kuwait 0.7 Sudan 12.4%
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