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Table 2.4. Percentage of children less than age 5 who are underweight, by country, sex of child, and region of residence as well as sex
and age of head of household a
Sex of child Region of residence Sex of household head Age of household head
Country
Male
( a )
Female
( b )
Comparison
( b ) - ( a )
Urban
( c )
Rural
( d )
Comparison
( d ) - ( c )
Male
( e )
Female
( f )
Comparison
( f ) - ( e )
Less than
age 50
( g )
Age 50
or more
( h )
Comparison
( h ) - ( g )
All
children
Benin 24.2 20.9 -3.3 18.2 24.9 6.7 22.8 20.9 -1.9 22.1 26.9 4.8 22.6
Burkina Faso 31.0 29.6 -1.4 19.7 32.4 12.7 30.6 27.5 -3.1 30.2 31.0 0.8 30.3
Burundi 35.6 32.3 -3.3 21.8 35.1 13.3 33.6 35.6 2.0 33.7 39.7 6.0 34.0
Cameroon 18.1 17.1 -1.0 9.4 23.9 14.5 18.6 12.7 -5.9 18.4 13.3 -5.1 17.6
Ethiopia 35.1 33.8 -1.3 20.3 36.5 16.2 34.8 32.9 -1.9 34.6 33.3 -1.3 34.5
Ghana 17.8 17.1 -0.7 14.2 19.5 5.3 17.6 17.2 -0.4 17.0 20.6 3.6 17.5
Guinea 27.0 24.9 -2.1 18.6 28.1 9.5 26.2 23.4 -2.8 26.0 25.7 -0.3 25.9
Kenya 20.7 19.8 -0.9 12.5 21.8 9.3 20.8 18.9 -1.9 20.1 22.0 1.9 20.2
Lesotho 18.9 13.8 -5.1 13.0 17.1 4.1 16.9 15.2 -1.7 16.5 16.0 -0.5 16.4
Liberia 24.3 23.1 -1.2 21.0 24.9 3.9 24.3 22.4 -1.9 23.7 24.0 0.3 23.7
Malawi 19.0 16.7 -2.3 14.8 18.4 3.6 17.6 20.2 2.6 17.8 17.4 -0.4 17.8
Mali 32.5 30.7 -1.8 24.1 34.5 10.4 31.6 32.0 0.4 32.0 28.7 -3.3 31.6
Mozambique 20.2 18.3 -1.9 13.8 21.3 7.5 19.3 19.0 -0.3 19.6 15.5 -4.1 19.2
Namibia 21.9 20.8 -1.1 15.2 24.3 9.1 19.7 23.1 3.4 19.7 25.8 6.1 21.4
Niger 44.8 43.8 -1.0 27.3 47.3 20.0 43.9 46.2 2.3 44.7 42.8 -1.9 44.3
Nigeria 28.0 26.3 -1.7 19.2 30.9 11.7 28.0 20.2 -7.8 27.5 24.7 -2.8 27.2
Rwanda 16.1 14.5 -1.6 9.7 16.1 6.4 15.0 16.3 1.3 15.1 19.5 4.4 15.3
Senegal 23.0 22.9 -0.1 17.6 26.4 8.8 23.8 19.7 -4.1 23.0 23.0 0.0 23.0
Tanzania 21.5 19.7 -1.8 15.6 21.9 6.3 20.2 22.6 2.4 20.7 20.1 -0.6 20.6
Uganda 17.6 16.4 -1.2 9.2 18.2 9.0 16.9 17.3 0.4 17.2 14.3 -2.9 17.0
Zambia 20.9 17.9 -3.0 16.8 20.4 3.6 19.5 19.0 -0.5 19.1 23.3 4.2 19.4
Zimbabwe 14.2 12.4 -1.8 10.2 14.3 4.1 13.2 13.4 0.2 13.0 15.3 2.3 13.3
Note: Children who are more than −2 standard deviations below the reference population median are defined as underweight.
a There may be trivial discrepancies between tables because of rounding error.
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