Malnutrition in the OIC Member
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Figure 22: Evolution of Child Malnutrition in Senegal between 1986 and 2014
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Source: ICF International, 2015. The DHS Program STATcompiler. Funded by USAID.
October 19 2016
Overweight remained fairly constant between 1986 and 2011 (at around 2.4%, with a peak at
3.9% in 1993) and steadily declined thereafter. The prevalence of overweight is now half (at
1.2% in 2014) of the level observed in 2011.
Finally, prevalence of anaemia steadily declined since 1986, albeit from an extremely high level
(82.6%). The prevalence of anaemia has decreased at a rate of 0.83 percentage point per year.
Between 2013 and 2014, the prevalence rate suddenly dropped by almost 11 percentage point,
which warrants confirmation from subsequent surveys n epict the
evolution of malnutrition by wealth groups. Whereas wasting has considerably diminished
among children of the highest quintile over the last 10 years: from 7.6% in 2005 to 3.3% in
2014; the decrease has been much more modest among children of the lowest wealth group
(from 10.3% in 2005 to 8.2% in 2014).
The temporal evolution of stunting between 2005 and 2014 is fairly similar across all wealth
groups. All groups saw a rise in stunting between 2005 and 2011, and a decline thereafter,
leaving prevalence in 2014 to a similar level than it was in 2005. The group that experienced
the most significant decline is the second poorest group for which stunting prevalence went
down from 19.2% in 2005 to 15.5% in 2014.
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