COMCEC
Malnutrition in the OIC Member
Countries: A Trap for Poverty
Absolute change Relative change
Country (Percentage point) Country (Percentage)
Chad -5.1 Guyana -14.3%
Iraq -5.0 Benin -13.0%
Cameroon -4.6 Cameroon -12.7%
Guinea -4.0 Chad -11.3%
Malaysia -3.5 Guinea -11.3%
Sierra Leone -3.5 Somalia -11.3%
Somalia -3.3 Yemen, Rep. -11.3%
Guyana -2. 0 Sierra Leone -8.5%
Niger -0. 8 Lebanon -4.1%
Lebanon -0.7 Bahrain -2 .2 %
Bahrain -0.3 Niger -1 .8 %
Libya -0.1 Libya -0.5%
Sudan -0.1 Sudan -0.3%
Kuwait 0.8 Mali 7.5%
Albania 2.7 Albania 13.2%
Mali 2.7 Kuwait 16.0%
Djibouti 5.5 Djibouti 19.6%
Cote d'Ivoire 7.1 Cote d'Ivoire 31.6%
Source: authors' calculations based on the Joint Malnutrition Estimatesfrom UNICEF, WHOand the World Bank
(2016).
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