Percentages of children stunted, overweight or stuntedoverweight in 79 LMICs (JMEs and AEs)*
| JMEs (%)17 | Amended estimates (AEs) (%)18,19 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Year | Stunting† | Overweight | Stunting† | Overweight | Stuntingoverweight |
| Albania | 2008 | 23.1 | 23.4 | 10.2 | 12.6 | 9.0 |
| Armenia | 2010 | 20.8 | 16.8 | 12.2 | 8.2 | 7.1 |
| Azerbaijan | 2006 | 26.8 | 13.9 | 16.6 | 4.3 | 8.6 |
| Bangladesh | 2011 | 41.4 | 1.9 | 40.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Barbados | 2012 | 7.7 | 12.2 | 6.1 | 9.6 | 1.6 |
| Belarus | 2005 | 4.5 | 9.7 | 3.4 | 8.8 | 1.0 |
| Belize | 2011 | 19.3 | 7.9 | 17.1 | 5.5 | 2.3 |
| Benin | 2006 | 44.7 | 11.4 | 36.1 | 2.3 | 6.9 |
| Bhutan | 2010 | 33.6 | 7.6 | 28.2 | 2.1 | 5.4 |
| BiH | 2011–12 | 8.9 | 17.4 | 5.1 | 13.0 | 3.8 |
| Bolivia | 2008 | 27.2 | 8.7 | 24.6 | 6.0 | 2.5 |
| Burkina Faso | 2010 | 35.1 | 2.8 | 33.1 | 1.0 | 1.4 |
| Burundi | 2010 | 57.5 | 2.9 | 56.0 | 0.8 | 1.9 |
| Cambodia | 2010 | 40.9 | 1.9 | 38.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| Cameroon | 2011 | 32.6 | 6.5 | 29.5 | 3.8 | 2.4 |
| Central African Republic | 2006 | 45.1 | 8.5 | 37.6 | 3.3 | 5.0 |
| Chad | 2004 | 44.8 | 4.4 | 42.4 | 1.7 | 2.2 |
| Colombia | 2010 | 12.7 | 4.8 | 12.6 | 4.3 | 0.5 |
| Comoros | 2012 | 32.1 | 10.9 | 25.0 | 4.4 | 4.7 |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | 2011–12 | 25.0 | 3.6 | 21.7 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Congo Democratic Republic | 2013–14 | 42.6 | 4.4 | 39.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 |
| Djibouti | 2006 | 32.6 | 13.4 | 26.3 | 5.4 | 7.3 |
| Dominican Republic | 2013 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 1.0 |
| Egypt | 2014 | 22.3 | 15.7 | 13.9 | 7.3 | 7.6 |
| Ethiopia | 2011 | 44.2 | 1.8 | 43.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Gabon | 2012 | 17.5 | 7.7 | 13.7 | 5.1 | 2.3 |
| Gambia | 2005 | 27.6 | 2.7 | 26.5 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Georgia | 2005 | 14.7 | 21.0 | 6.9 | 14.0 | 6.6 |
| Ghana | 2008 | 28.6 | 5.9 | 25.0 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| Guinea | 2012 | 31.3 | 3.8 | 29.3 | 2.0 | 1.6 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 2006 | 47.7 | 17.0 | 35.7 | 3.3 | 11.7 |
| Guyana | 2009 | 19.5 | 6.7 | 16.6 | 4.6 | 2.1 |
| Haiti | 2012 | 21.9 | 3.6 | 19.7 | 2.6 | 1.1 |
| Honduras | 2011–12 | 22.7 | 5.2 | 21.8 | 4.7 | 0.6 |
| India | 2005 | 47.9 | 1.9 | 47.1 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
| Iraq | 2006 | 27.5 | 15.0 | 19.0 | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Ivory Coast | 2011 | 29.6 | 3.2 | 28.5 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Jordan | 2012 | 7.8 | 4.7 | 7.1 | 3.9 | 0.5 |
| Kazakhstan | 2010–11 | 13.1 | 13.3 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 4.7 |
| Kenya | 2008–09 | 35.2 | 5.0 | 32.9 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2012 | 17.8 | 9.0 | 14.2 | 5.1 | 3.5 |
| Lao PDR | 2011–12 | 43.8 | 2.0 | 42.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
| Lesotho | 2009–10 | 39.0 | 7.3 | 34.5 | 4.5 | 3.1 |
| Liberia | 2013 | 32.1 | 3.2 | 28.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| Madagascar | 2003–04 | 52.8 | 6.2 | 48.9 | 1.3 | 4.1 |
| Malawi | 2010 | 47.8 | 9.2 | 42.0 | 3.1 | 5.1 |
| Maldives | 2009 | 20.3 | 6.5 | 16.8 | 4.6 | 1.2 |
| Mali | 2006 | 38.5 | 4.7 | 35.7 | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| Mauritania | 2011 | 29.7 | 3.2 | 26.7 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| Mongolia | 2010 | 15.6 | 4.7 | 13.1 | 8.8 | 2.0 |
| Montenegro | 2013 | 9.4 | 22.3 | 4.0 | 15.5 | 5.7 |
| Morocco | 2003–04 | 23.1 | 13.3 | 17.0 | 7.6 | 5.5 |
| Mozambique | 2011 | 43.1 | 7.9 | 38.2 | 2.8 | 4.6 |
| Namibia | 2013 | 23.1 | 4.1 | 21.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 |
| Nepal | 2011 | 40.5 | 1.5 | 39.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Niger | 2012 | 43.0 | 3.0 | 41.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| Nigeria | 2013 | 36.4 | 4.9 | 34.1 | 1.3 | 2.6 |
| Pakistan | 2012–13 | 45.0 | 4.8 | 42.1 | 1.0 | 2.3 |
| Peru | 2012 | 18.4 | 7.2 | 17.4 | 6.9 | 0.5 |
| Rwanda | 2010 | 44.3 | 7.1 | 40.4 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| Sao Tome e Principe | 2008 | 31.6 | 11.6 | 23.7 | 5.2 | 5.7 |
| Senegal | 2014 | 19.4 | 1.3 | 20.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Serbia | 2010 | 6.6 | 15.6 | 3.6 | 12.3 | 3.0 |
| Sierra Leone | 2013 | 37.9 | 8.9 | 33.5 | 3.4 | 4.3 |
| Somalia | 2006 | 42.1 | 4.7 | 39.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| Suriname | 2010 | 8.8 | 4.0 | 13.1 | 8.8 | 2.0 |
| Swaziland | 2010 | 31.0 | 10.7 | 28.1 | 7.8 | 2.8 |
| Syria | 2006 | 28.6 | 18.7 | 16.9 | 7.1 | 10.9 |
| Tajikistan | 2012 | 26.8 | 6.6 | 23.0 | 2.7 | 3.1 |
| Tanzania | 2009–10 | 42.5 | 5.5 | 39.0 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| Thailand | 2005–06 | 15.7 | 8.0 | 13.7 | 6.1 | 1.9 |
| Timor-Leste | 2009 | 57.7 | 5.8 | 54.1 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| Togo | 2010 | 29.8 | 1.6 | 29.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| Turkey | 2003–04 | 15.6 | 9.1 | 13.9 | 7.5 | 1.2 |
| Uganda | 2011 | 33.7 | 3.8 | 31.4 | 2.0 | 1.7 |
| Uzbekistan | 2006 | 19.6 | 12.8 | 14.7 | 8.0 | 4.2 |
| Vanuatu | 2007 | 25.9 | 4.7 | 23.2 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
| Zambia | 2013–14 | 40.0 | 6.2 | 36.6 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
| Zimbabwe | 2010 | 32.3 | 2.8 | 29.1 | 3.2 | 2.0 |
*It should be noted that any discrepancies between the Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JMEs) stunting and overweight rates and respective AEs (including stuntedoverweight children for consistent comparison) are thought to be, in the main, due to differential cleaning criteria in the JMEs compared with the AEs.20 For example, in the case of Kazakhstan, dropping biologically implausible cases for the analysis for AEs led to a sample size of 4985 children. In the JMEs, n=5015.17 Although this type of issue has been documented elsewhere,20 the online supplementary tables S2 and S317–21 provide a description of this issue and detail the differences in sample size and estimates.
†In line with the JMEs, AEs of stunting include children who are concurrently stunted and wasted, this has impact on estimates of stuntingoverweight or overweight.