Malnutrition in the OIC Member
Countries: A Trap for Poverty
COMCEC
Algeria -16.6 Afghanistan -29.6%
Iraq -16.2 Jordan -29.3%
Syrian Arab Republic -16.0 Uzbekistan -28.8%
Saudi Arabia -15.3 Comoros -28.7%
Albania -14.6 Kuwait -28.3%
Cameroon -14.1 Saudi Arabia -28.1%
Turkmenistan -13.9 Morocco -27.1%
Malaysia -13.8 Qatar -26.8%
Mozambique -13.5 Bahrain -26.7%
Morocco -13.2 Uganda -26.7%
Jordan -12.9 Azerbaijan -26.4%
Libya -12.8 Tunisia -24.4%
Azerbaijan -12.6 Bangladesh -24.4%
Lebanon -12.6 Somalia -23.6%
Gabon -12.0 Benin -23.0%
Mauritania -11.6 Gambia, The -22.5%
Bahrain -11.6 Cameroon -18.2%
Niger -11.6 Mozambique -16.9%
Kuwait -10.4 Gabon -16.7%
Togo -10.3 Guyana -16.6%
Guinea-Bissau -10.1 Mauritania -14.1%
Chad -9.9 Niger -13.3%
Tunisia -9.5 Togo -12.7%
Qatar -9.4 Guinea-Bissau -12.4%
Sierra Leone -8.2 Brunei Darussalam -12.0%
Guyana -8.2 Chad -11.9%
Guinea -7.2 Suriname -10.6%
Senegal -6.2 Sierra Leone -10.0%
Nigeria -5.7 Guinea -8.7%
Cote d'Ivoire -5.7 Yemen, Rep. -8.3%
Yemen, Rep. -5.4 Nigeria -7.4%
Mali -5.1 Senegal -7.3%
Suriname -4.6 Cote d'Ivoire -7.1%
Pakistan -4.1 Pakistan -6.3%
Burkina Faso -3.0 Mali -6.0%
Brunei Darussalam -2.5 Burkina Faso -3.4%
Egypt, Arab Rep. 3.4 Egypt, Arab Rep. 8.1%
Source: authors' calculations based on the Joint Malnutrition Estimatesfrom UNICEF, WHOand the World Bank
(2016).
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