Malnutrition in the OIC Member

Countries: A Trap for Poverty

COMCEC

Figure 11: Prevalence ofAnaemia in OICand Non-OIC Countries, 1990 /94 - 2010/16,

Developing Countries Only

Source: Authors calculations based on theJoint Malnutrition Estimatesfrom UNICEF, WHOand the World Bank

(2016).

54 out 55 OIC countries for which data are available have experienced a drop in anaemia

prevalence between 1990/94 and 2010/16. The only country where prevalence of anaemia

increased is Egypt (+3.4 pp). The largest drops in anaemia rates have been recorded in the

Maldives (-54 pp), Kazakhstan (-35 pp), Sudan (-29 pp), Indonesia (-26 pp), Tajikistan (-22

pp), and Djibouti, Comoros and Uganda (-21 pp). In relative terms, the largest decrease has

been experienced in the Maldives (-64%), Kazakhstan (-54%), Indonesia (-45%), Tajikistan (44%), Albania (-39%), Turkey (-37%), Iran (-36%) and Kirgizstan (-35%).

Overall evolution of child malnutrition

By combining information on wasting, stunting and overweight, it is possible to define a

typology of countries' trajectories between 1990/95 and 2010/16. Countries can be classified

into the following categories: (I) countries with progress on under-nutrition and over

nutrition; (II) countries with progress on both under-nutrition indicators (wasting and

stunting) but worsening situation of over-nutrition; (III) countries with mixed progress in

under-nutrition combined with deterioration of over-nutrition; and (IV) countries with

deterioration of both under- and over-nutrition.2

2Mixed progress on under-nutrition is mostly of the form of improvement on stunting and deterioration of wasting.