Annex I

Annex I DATA TABLES

TABLE 13.

Prevalence of undernourishment (percent)

	2000–2002	2004–2006	2009–2011	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	13.2	12.3	9.4	8.3	8.2	8.3	8.9
Africa	24.0	21.6	18.7	17.0	17.4	17.6	19.0
Central Africa	40.1	36.7	30.4	28.8	29.1	29.4	30.5
Eastern Africa	38.6	34.2	29.4	25.0	25.5	25.5	26.6
Northern Africa	8.6	8.3	7.4	6.1	6.3	6.4	6.6
Southern Africa	5.6	5.1	6.2	7.4	7.6	7.5	8.4
Western Africa	16.5	14.1	11.8	11.7	12.1	12.4	14.8
Algeria	8.0	6.7	4.6	2.8	2.7	<2.5	<2.5
Angola	67.5	52.2	24.4	14.5	15.4	15.5	17.3
Benin	17.2	12.0	8.5	7.3	7.2	7.3	7.6
Botswana	23.7	25.2	31.5	26.4	28.9	29.5	29.3
Burkina Faso	22.6	17.5	13.7	12.0	12.4	12.7	14.4
Burundi
Cabo Verde	14.5	11.0	15.8	16.8	16.7	16.2	15.4
Cameroon	22.9	15.9	7.6	5.4	5.6	5.6	5.3
Central African Republic	39.2	39.6	29.1	49.9	46.1	46.7	48.2
Chad	38.8	37.8	36.3	28.0	29.1	30.4	31.7
Comoros
Congo	27.0	34.0	36.5	34.1	36.0	36.8	37.7
Côte d’Ivoire	20.4	20.2	22.3	16.5	15.0	14.9	14.9
Democratic Republic of the Congo	38.2	38.4	38.8	40.1	40.2	40.4	41.7
Djibouti	42.0	31.3	22.9	17.5	16.4	16.0	16.2
Egypt	5.2	6.4	5.4	4.4	4.9	5.1	5.4
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini	10.5	9.2	18.5	12.8	12.4	11.9	11.6
Ethiopia	47.0	37.1	27.6	14.8	14.0	14.4	16.2
Gabon	10.7	14.3	17.2	13.9	16.0	16.2	15.7
Gambia	17.8	21.7	13.1	11.3	11.9	12.4	13.6
Ghana	14.9	11.2	6.6	7.7	7.1	6.4	6.1
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya	32.2	28.5	24.2	21.5	24.6	24.4	24.8
Lesotho	20.0	13.7	11.6	29.9	26.0	20.8	23.5
Liberia	36.6	35.8	34.6	36.4	36.6	37.5	38.9
Libya
Madagascar	33.8	33.4	29.0	40.2	42.3	42.6	43.2
Malawi	23.6	22.5	16.4	16.0	16.5	16.8	17.3
Mali	16.2	13.3	6.0	5.0	6.3	7.7	10.4
Mauritania	8.3	9.4	7.3	8.3	8.6	8.7	9.1
Mauritius	5.7	5.1	4.7	5.6	5.9	5.7	6.2
Morocco	6.3	5.5	5.5	3.8	3.7	3.7	4.2
Mozambique	36.5	33.3	24.1	29.7	31.4	31.0	31.2
Namibia	13.5	18.2	32.7	21.0	20.0	19.9	19.8
Niger
Nigeria	8.9	7.1	7.8	9.2	10.0	10.7	14.6
Rwanda	38.5	35.3	31.3	35.3	34.5	34.3	35.2
Sao Tome and Principe	14.7	9.0	14.1	12.8	11.8	11.8	11.9
Senegal	24.0	17.2	11.1	9.8	7.9	7.4	7.5
Seychelles
Sierra Leone	50.7	46.7	28.8	25.8	26.2	25.7	26.2
Somalia	57.9	58.2	75.6	60.3	58.7	57.4	59.5
South Africa	3.9	3.4	3.6	5.2	5.5	5.5	6.5
South Sudan
Sudan	21.5	18.9	16.5	11.2	11.8	12.0	12.3
Togo	31.3	27.7	21.2	20.9	21.2	20.9	20.4
Tunisia	4.4	4.3	3.4	2.5	<2.5	2.5	3.0
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania	33.0	31.6	29.5	24.4	24.1	24.2	25.1
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Source: FAO.

TABLE 14.

Number of undernourished people (millions)

	2000–2002	2004–2006	2009–2011	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	819.2	804.0	652.3	613.8	622.7	632.9	683.9
Africa	199.8	198.4	194.8	201.4	217.1	224.9	248.0
Central Africa	39.7	41.2	40.1	44.4	47.8	49.7	53.2
Eastern Africa	102.3	101.0	99.9	97.5	104.8	107.7	115.3
Northern Africa	15.0	15.5	15.0	13.6	14.8	15.2	16.0
Southern Africa	2.9	2.8	3.6	4.7	4.9	4.9	5.6
Western Africa	39.9	37.9	36.2	41.2	44.9	47.4	57.8
Algeria	2.5	2.2	1.6	1.1	1.1
Angola	11.4	10.1	5.7	4.1	4.6	4.8	5.5
Benin	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9
Botswana	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7
Burkina Faso	2.7	2.4	2.1	2.2	2.4	2.5	2.9
Burundi
Cabo Verde	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Cameroon	3.6	2.8	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.4
Central African Republic	1.5	1.6	1.3	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.3
Chad	3.4	3.8	4.3	3.9	4.4	4.7	5.1
Comoros
Congo	0.9	1.2	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.9	2.0
Côte d’Ivoire	3.4	3.7	4.6	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.8
Democratic Republic of the Congo	18.5	21.1	25.1	30.6	32.7	34.0	36.2
Djibouti	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Egypt	3.7	4.9	4.4	4.1	4.7	5.0	5.4
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini	0.1	<0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Ethiopia	32.0	28.3	24.2	14.9	14.9	15.7	18.2
Gabon	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Gambia	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Ghana	2.9	2.5	1.6	2.1	2.1	1.9	1.8
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya	10.6	10.4	10.2	10.3	12.4	12.5	13.0
Lesotho	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.5
Liberia	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.9
Libya
Madagascar	5.5	6.1	6.1	9.7	10.8	11.2	11.7
Malawi	2.7	2.8	2.4	2.7	2.9	3.1	3.2
Mali	1.8	1.7	0.9	0.9	1.2	1.5	2.0
Mauritania	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4
Mauritius	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Morocco	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.5
Mozambique	6.7	6.8	5.7	8.0	9.0	9.1	9.5
Namibia	0.2	0.4	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Niger
Nigeria	11.2	9.9	12.4	16.6	19.2	21.0	29.4
Rwanda	3.2	3.1	3.1	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.4
Sao Tome and Principe	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Senegal	2.4	1.9	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.2
Seychelles
Sierra Leone	2.4	2.6	1.8	1.9	2.0	2.0	2.0
Somalia	5.3	6.1	9.1	8.3	8.6	8.6	9.2
South Africa	1.8	1.6	1.8	2.9	3.1	3.2	3.8
South Sudan
Sudan	6.0	5.8	5.7	4.4	4.8	5.0	5.3
Togo	1.6	1.6	1.4	1.5	1.6	1.6	1.7
Tunisia	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3		0.3	0.3
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania	11.3	12.1	13.1	12.5	13.2	13.6	14.5
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Source: FAO.

TABLE 15.

Prevalence of food insecurity (percent)

	Moderate or severe food insecurity				Severe food insecurity
	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	23.0	24.8	25.8	27.6	8.2	8.9	9.5	10.5
Africa	48.8	52.0	53.1	55.5	18.6	20.3	21.0	22.8
Central Africa				69.5				35.6
Eastern Africa	59.3	62.0	62.4	63.5	24.6	25.4	25.5	26.6
Northern Africa	28.7	31.4	31.0	30.0	9.9	10.1	9.5	9.2
Southern Africa	43.9	44.1	44.2	46.1	18.9	19.0	19.1	20.3
Western Africa	42.5	48.3	51.2	57.8	10.8	15.1	17.3	21.8
Algeria	22.9	19.7	17.6	17.6	13.0	11.4	9.3	6.9
Angola	66.5		70.1	73.5	21.0		24.0	26.9
Benin
Botswana	45.9	48.3	49.5	50.8	19.6	20.9	21.5	22.2
Burkina Faso	41.8	42.9	42.8	47.9	10.0	11.7	12.6	15.4
Burundi
Cabo Verde			36.4	35.1			8.6	7.6
Cameroon				55.8				26.7
Central African Republic				81.3				61.8
Chad
Comoros
Congo	82.0	87.9	88.2	88.3	42.6	49.7	51.1	51.7
Côte d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo				69.2				38.5
Djibouti
Egypt	27.8	33.1	31.2	27.8	8.4	8.6	7.4	6.7
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini	62.6	62.6	63.3	64.1	29.4	29.4	30.0	30.8
Ethiopia	56.2	59.4	57.9	56.3	14.5	14.8	14.1	16.4
Gabon
Gambia	52.7	52.7	54.3	56.0	23.6	23.6	24.6	25.7
Ghana	49.3	49.8	50.0	50.2	7.6	8.1	8.3	8.6
Guinea	72.5	74.1	74.1	74.1	44.3	49.7	49.7	49.7
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya	53.0	60.4	64.3	68.5	17.3	21.2	23.3	25.7
Lesotho				49.7				27.0
Liberia				80.6				37.3
Libya	29.1	33.2	35.7	37.4	11.2	14.3	16.7	18.6
Madagascar
Malawi	81.9	81.8	81.8	81.8	51.8	51.6	51.5	51.4
Mali
Mauritania	26.3	32.3	35.9	39.8	4.6	5.5	5.9	6.5
Mauritius	13.0	18.5	20.7	24.2	5.2	6.3	6.8	8.3
Morocco			26.7	28.0
Mozambique			68.4	71.1			40.7	40.5
Namibia	53.2	55.3	56.4	57.6	28.9	30.5	31.3	32.1
Niger
Nigeria	36.5	43.6	47.1	57.7	6.6	12.1	14.8	21.4
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal	39.3	38.0	39.7	40.9	14.5	12.5	13.9	13.6
Seychelles	14.3	14.3		14.7	3.2	3.2		3.3
Sierra Leone	78.4	79.9	80.6	83.9	30.4	31.2	31.5	31.8
Somalia				79.1				43.0
South Africa	42.9			44.9	18.0			19.3
South Sudan	85.1	85.1	84.9	84.8	65.4	65.4	63.7	62.0
Sudan	41.4	46.4	48.9	49.4	13.4	15.4	16.4	16.8
Togo
Tunisia	18.2	20.0	22.1	25.1	9.1	9.1	9.7	10.7
Uganda	58.0	63.4	66.3	69.2	17.5	19.5	20.6	21.7
United Republic of Tanzania		55	55	56.4		23.8	23.8	24.7
Zambia	48.8	50.1	50.8	51.4	21.8	22.5	22.8	23.2
Zimbabwe	64.7	67	66.7	69.8	35.5	35.9	34.2	32.1

Source: FAO.

TABLE 16.

Number of food insecure people (millions)

	Moderately or severely food insecure				Severely food insecure
	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	1 696.1	1 874.4	1 970.1	2 132.3	607.7	669.4	722.7	813.0
Africa	576.7	647.6	677.9	726.4	219.8	252.6	268.1	298.7
Central Africa				121.2				62.1
Eastern Africa	231.3	254.9	263.6	275.5	95.7	104.3	107.6	115.5
Northern Africa	64.3	73.1	73.5	72.6	22.1	23.4	22.6	22.2
Southern Africa	27.7	28.6	29.0	30.7	11.9	12.3	12.6	13.5
Western Africa	149.7	179.3	195.2	226.4	38.1	55.9	65.9	85.5
Algeria	9.1	8.2	7.4	7.6	5.2	4.7	3.9	3.0
Angola	18.5		21.6	23.4	5.9		7.4	8.6
Benin
Botswana	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.2	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5
Burkina Faso	7.6	8.2	8.5	9.7	1.8	2.3	2.5	3.1
Burundi
Cabo Verde			0.2	0.2			<0.1	<0.1
Cameroon				14.4				6.9
Central African Republic				3.9				2.9
Chad
Comoros
Congo	4.0	4.5	4.6	4.8	2.1	2.5	2.7	2.8
Côte d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo				60.1				33.4
Djibouti
Egypt	25.7	31.9	30.7	27.9	7.8	8.3	7.3	6.8
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4
Ethiopia	56.7	63.2	63.3	63.2	14.7	15.7	15.4	18.4
Gabon
Gambia	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.3	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6
Ghana	13.7	14.5	14.9	15.3	2.1	2.4	2.5	2.6
Guinea	8.3	8.9	9.2	9.5	5.1	6.0	6.2	6.3
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya	25.4	30.3	33.1	36.0	8.3	10.6	12.0	13.5
Lesotho				1.1				0.6
Liberia				4.0				1.8
Libya	1.9	2.2	2.4	2.5	0.7	0.9	1.1	1.3
Madagascar
Malawi	13.7	14.5	14.8	15.2	8.7	9.1	9.4	9.6
Mali
Mauritania	1.1	1.4	1.6	1.8	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3
Mauritius	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	0.1
Morocco			9.6	10.2
Mozambique			20.2	21.6			12.0	12.3
Namibia	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.4	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8
Niger
Nigeria	66.1	83.2	92.4	116.0	11.9	23.1	29.0	43.0
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal	5.7	5.9	6.3	6.7	2.1	1.9	2.2	2.2
Seychelles	<0.1	<0.1		<0.1	<0.1	<0.1		<0.1
Sierra Leone	5.6	6.0	6.2	6.6	2.2	2.3	2.4	2.5
Somalia				12.6				6.8
South Africa	23.7			26.3	10.0			11.3
South Sudan	9.1	9.3	9.3	9.4	7.0	7.1	7.0	6.9
Sudan	16.1	19.0	20.4	21.2	5.2	6.3	6.8	7.2
Togo
Tunisia	2.0	2.3	2.6	2.9	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.2
Uganda	22.2	26.1	28.3	30.6	6.7	8.0	8.8	9.6
United Republic of Tanzania		30.1	31.0	32.7		13.0	13.4	14.3
Zambia	7.7	8.4	8.8	9.2	3.5	3.8	4.0	4.1
Zimbabwe	8.9	9.5	9.6	10.2	4.9	5.1	4.9	4.7

Source: FAO.

TABLE 17.

Prevalence of stunting among children under five (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018	2019	2020
World	33.1	30.7	27.7	24.4	22.9	22.4	22.0
Africa	41.5	39.1	35.9	32.8	31.6	31.2	30.7
Central Africa	44.9	41.4	38.7	37.4	37.3	37.1	36.8
Eastern Africa	49.1	45.2	40.8	36.2	34.0	33.3	32.6
Northern Africa	28.3	26.1	23.8	21.9	21.6	21.5	21.4
Southern Africa	29.1	28.5	25.0	23.5	23.2	23.2	23.3
Western Africa	39.9	38.5	36.1	33.4	31.9	31.4	30.9
Algeria	22.1	17.9	13.7	11.1	9.9	9.5	9.3
Angola	47.8	35.8	31.9	34.4	36.8	37.4	37.7
Benin	36.8	36.1	34.6	33.2	32.4	31.9	31.3
Botswana	31.5	28.9	25.9	23.5	23.5	23.2	22.8
Burkina Faso	41.5	42.0	37.1	29.3	26.7	26.1	25.5
Burundi	62.3	60.4	57.4	56.3	56.8	57.2	57.6
Cabo Verde	18.0	14.8	13.2	11.0	10.2	9.9	9.7
Cameroon	37.3	36.5	33.6	30.8	28.9	28.1	27.2
Central African Republic	43.4	43.1	41.8	41.7	41.0	40.5	40.1
Chad	42.5	41.5	39.6	37.4	36.0	35.5	35.0
Comoros	42.4	38.8	34.7	28.7	24.9	23.7	22.6
Congo	36.4	30.7	25.1	21.5	19.6	18.8	18.0
Côte d’Ivoire	33.6	34.0	31.4	25.3	20.6	19.1	17.8
Democratic Republic of the Congo	47.8	45.8	43.6	41.7	41.5	41.2	40.8
Djibouti	30.0	29.8	30.8	33.1	33.9	34.0	34.0
Egypt	26.9	25.1	23.7	21.9	22.2	22.3	22.3
Equatorial Guinea	39.3	33.9	27.8	23.4	21.2	20.5	19.7
Eritrea	47.7	47.0	49.4	50.4	49.9	49.5	49.1
Eswatini	36.8	34.5	31.1	26.4	24.1	23.3	22.6
Ethiopia	57.5	50.7	44.7	40.1	37.3	36.3	35.3
Gabon	25.8	23.8	18.8	15.9	15.1	14.8	14.4
Gambia	29.8	26.6	23.7	20.4	17.9	16.9	16.1
Ghana	33.3	30.0	24.8	18.9	16.1	15.1	14.2
Guinea	34.2	35.5	34.7	32.7	30.9	30.2	29.4
Guinea-Bissau	33.9	31.9	30.5	28.9	28.7	28.4	28.0
Kenya	38.9	36.8	30.7	24.3	21.5	20.4	19.4
Lesotho	41.0	41.8	39.7	34.4	32.9	32.4	32.1
Liberia	45.1	41.4	37.3	33.3	30.3	28.8	28.0
Libya	20.5	22.6	26.2	34.8	40.1	41.5	43.5
Madagascar	55.2	52.2	49.1	45.3	42.4	41.3	40.2
Malawi	55.7	52.8	46.8	40.2	38.5	37.8	37.0
Mali	40.0	36.3	32.2	29.1	27.0	26.3	25.7
Mauritania	40.4	32.3	27.9	26.0	25.1	24.7	24.2
Mauritius	12.7	10.1	9.2	8.9	8.8	8.8	8.7
Morocco	25.2	20.3	17.4	15.1	13.8	13.4	12.9
Mozambique	50.5	45.9	43.1	41.7	39.2	38.4	37.8
Namibia	30.3	28.6	25.9	21.7	19.5	18.9	18.4
Niger	52.1	51.0	49.2	47.2	46.9	46.8	46.7
Nigeria	42.3	40.7	38.8	37.0	36.1	35.7	35.3
Rwanda	49.1	50.1	44.1	36.7	34.3	33.4	32.6
Sao Tome and Principe	31.1	24.5	20.1	15.6	13.1	12.4	11.8
Senegal	25.4	21.9	19.9	19.5	18.3	17.8	17.2
Seychelles	10.9	8.8	8.1	7.9	7.6	7.5	7.4
Sierra Leone	38.7	39.2	37.4	32.6	28.8	27.7	26.8
Somalia	31.9	32.6	31.9	29.7	28.3	27.9	27.4
South Africa	28.1	27.6	24.1	23.1	23.0	23.1	23.2
South Sudan	38.9	35.6	32.8	31.4	31.0	30.8	30.6
Sudan	40.8	38.6	36.7	35.3	34.4	34.1	33.7
Togo	35.2	32.0	28.6	26.0	24.8	24.3	23.8
Tunisia	12.9	11.1	9.5	8.8	8.7	8.6	8.6
Uganda	44.0	40.2	36.0	30.7	28.8	28.4	27.9
United Republic of Tanzania	47.7	43.6	40.6	35.3	33.6	32.8	32.0
Zambia	54.0	50.1	44.0	37.6	33.8	32.9	32.3
Zimbabwe	32.4	34.6	33.7	26.8	24.2	23.5	23.0

Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank.

TABLE 18.

Prevalence of wasting among children under five (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018	2019	2020
World							6.7
Africa							6.0
Central Africa							6.2
Eastern Africa							5.2
Northern Africa							6.6
Southern Africa							3.2
Western Africa							6.9
Algeria	3.1					2.7
Angola				4.9
Benin					5.0
Botswana	5.9
Burkina Faso			15.5	10.2	8.4	8.1
Burundi	8.1	9.0	6.0		4.8	4.8
Cameroon					4.3
Central African Republic	10.4		7.4		6.5	5.2
Chad	13.9		16.3	13.3	13.5	13.9
Comoros	13.3
Congo		8.0
Democratic Republic of the Congo			8.5
Egypt		5.3
Equatorial Guinea	9.2
Eritrea			14.6
Eswatini	1.7		0.8
Ethiopia	12.4	12.4				7.2
Gabon	4.2
Gambia	9.1		9.5		6.2		5.1
Guinea		11.0			9.2
Guinea-Bissau	11.8		5.9			7.8
Kenya	7.4	6.9
Lesotho					2.1
Liberia	7.4		4.0			3.4
Madagascar					6.4
Malawi	6.8		4.0	2.8	1.3	0.6
Mali			8.9	13.5	9.0	9.3
Mauritania	15.3			14.8	11.5
Mozambique				4.4
Namibia	10.0
Niger	16.2		15.8	13.6	14.1	9.8
Nigeria				7.3	6.8		6.5
Rwanda	8.7	4.9	2.9	2.3	2.0		1.1
Sao Tome and Principe						4.1
Senegal	10.0	8.7		7.8	7.8	8.1
Sierra Leone	11.6	10.2	7.5			5.4
South Africa				3.5
South Sudan			22.7
Sudan			15.4
Togo			4.7
Tunisia	2.9				2.1
Uganda	5.0
United Republic of Tanzania			4.9	4.5	3.5
Zambia					4.2
Zimbabwe		7.2	3.2	3.3		2.9

Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank.

TABLE 19.

Prevalence of overweight among children under five (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018	2019	2020
World	5.4	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.7
Africa	6.2	6.3	5.1	5.0	5.2	5.2	5.3
Central Africa	5.9	6.2	4.7	4.3	4.5	4.7	4.8
Eastern Africa	5.3	5.5	4.3	3.8	3.9	3.9	4.0
Northern Africa	10.9	11.3	11.7	12.5	12.9	13.0	13.0
Southern Africa	10.6	11.4	11.9	12.1	12.2	12.2	12.1
Western Africa	4.4	4.2	2.5	2.2	2.5	2.6	2.7
Algeria	13.0	13.7	13.6	13.2	13.0	12.9	12.9
Angola	3.1	3.4	3.0	3.0	3.2	3.4	3.5
Benin	2.9	2.8	1.7	1.7	2.0	2.1	2.2
Botswana	9.4	10.1	10.5	10.7	10.9	10.9	11.0
Burkina Faso	2.6	2.6	1.7	1.8	2.3	2.4	2.6
Burundi	2.4	2.6	2.3	2.5	2.8	3.0	3.1
Cameroon	8.3	9.7	7.1	7.4	8.6	9.1	9.6
Central African Republic	6.6	6.1	4.0	2.9	2.7	2.6	2.6
Chad	3.4	3.7	2.5	2.6	3.0	3.2	3.4
Comoros	12.3	14.2	11.7	10.1	9.8	9.7	9.6
Congo	6.6	6.9	5.4	4.9	4.9	5.0	5.1
Côte d’Ivoire	4.5	4.5	2.7	2.4	2.6	2.7	2.8
Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.5	6.7	5.0	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.2
Djibouti	8.0	9.0	7.6	6.9	7.1	7.2	7.2
Egypt	13.9	14.6	15.4	16.5	17.3	17.6	17.8
Equatorial Guinea	8.1	9.9	9.0	8.8	9.0	9.2	9.3
Eritrea	2.0	2.1	1.8	1.7	1.9	2.0	2.1
Eswatini	11.4	11.4	10.9	10.2	9.9	9.8	9.7
Ethiopia	3.2	3.3	2.6	2.4	2.5	2.6	2.6
Gabon	6.6	7.6	6.7	6.6	7.0	7.2	7.4
Gambia	3.2	3.2	2.0	1.9	2.1	2.2	2.3
Ghana	3.5	3.7	2.4	2.3	2.6	2.7	2.9
Guinea	5.4	6.1	4.3	4.4	5.1	5.4	5.7
Guinea-Bissau	4.7	4.7	2.9	2.7	3.1	3.2	3.4
Kenya	6.8	6.7	5.0	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.5
Lesotho	6.7	6.9	7.0	7.1	7.2	7.2	7.2
Liberia	4.5	4.9	3.3	3.5	4.1	4.4	4.7
Libya	17.6	21.4	24.8	26.0	25.9	25.8	25.4
Madagascar	3.0	2.9	2.0	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.5
Malawi	10.9	9.9	6.6	5.0	4.7	4.7	4.7
Mali	3.0	2.8	1.7	1.6	1.8	1.9	2.1
Mauritania	3.4	3.3	2.1	2.0	2.4	2.5	2.7
Mauritius	8.8	9.6	7.8	7.2	7.4	7.5	7.6
Morocco	12.2	12.3	11.9	11.5	11.4	11.3	11.3
Mozambique	6.7	7.3	6.0	5.6	5.8	5.9	6.0
Namibia	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.5	4.8	4.9	5.0
Niger	1.3	1.2	0.8	1.0	1.5	1.6	1.9
Nigeria	5.4	5.0	2.8	2.4	2.5	2.6	2.7
Rwanda	7.0	7.7	6.1	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.2
Sao Tome and Principe	3.9	4.1	2.8	2.9	3.5	3.8	4.0
Senegal	3.2	2.8	1.6	1.5	1.8	1.9	2.1
Seychelles	10.9	12.2	10.2	9.3	9.5	9.7	9.8
Sierra Leone	4.8	5.2	3.5	3.6	4.2	4.4	4.7
Somalia	4.5	4.5	3.4	2.9	2.9	2.9	2.9
South Africa	11.2	12.0	12.6	12.9	12.9	12.9	12.9
South Sudan	8.4	9.0	7.0	5.9	5.7	5.7	5.7
Sudan	3.5	3.5	2.7	2.4	2.6	2.6	2.7
Togo	2.8	2.8	1.8	1.8	2.1	2.3	2.4
Tunisia	4.6	6.4	9.5	13.3	15.4	16.0	16.5
Uganda	5.3	5.4	4.2	3.8	3.8	3.9	4.0
United Republic of Tanzania	5.3	5.7	4.8	4.7	5.1	5.3	5.5
Zambia	8.4	8.8	6.8	5.7	5.6	5.7	5.7
Zimbabwe	7.5	6.5	5.1	4.2	3.8	3.7	3.6

Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank.

TABLE 20.

Prevalence of anaemia among women of reproductive age (15–49 years) (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	2018	2019
World	31.2	29.9	28.6	28.8	29.3	29.6	29.9
Africa	44.5	42.6	39.9	38.8	38.7	38.8	38.9
Central Africa	51.0	50.1	47.4	44.5	43.8	43.5	43.2
Eastern Africa	38.8	35.9	32.2	31.3	31.5	31.7	31.9
Northern Africa	36.6	34.9	32.6	31.3	31.1	31.1	31.1
Southern Africa	35.1	32.3	29.1	28.8	29.3	29.8	30.3
Western Africa	56.7	55.4	53.5	52.4	52.0	51.9	51.8
Algeria	37.6	35.2	33.3	32.8	33.0	33.1	33.3
Angola	51.8	50.1	46.9	45.0	44.7	44.6	44.5
Benin	62.1	60.1	56.7	55.0	55.0	55.1	55.2
Botswana	36.4	34.2	31.7	31.6	32.1	32.3	32.5
Burkina Faso	56.4	54.9	53.5	53.1	52.8	52.6	52.5
Burundi	36.9	33.1	30.6	33.7	36.0	37.2	38.5
Cabo Verde	32.4	29.8	27.6	25.8	25.0	24.6	24.3
Cameroon	42.3	42.5	41.4	40.9	40.6	40.6	40.6
Central African Republic	50.9	50.1	48.5	47.7	47.2	47.0	46.8
Chad	52.4	52.3	50.3	47.6	46.4	45.9	45.4
Comoros	38.4	35.8	33.2	33.0	33.3	33.5	33.8
Congo	57.1	56.9	54.4	51.1	49.8	49.2	48.8
Côte d’Ivoire	54.1	53.5	52.5	51.7	51.3	51.1	50.9
Democratic Republic of the Congo	52.7	51.5	48.1	44.1	43.0	42.6	42.4
Djibouti	37.2	33.3	31.0	31.3	31.8	32.0	32.3
Egypt	35.5	34.5	31.9	29.7	28.8	28.5	28.3
Equatorial Guinea	56.3	52.7	48.7	45.8	45.0	44.7	44.5
Eritrea	41.2	39.1	36.7	36.3	36.6	36.8	37.0
Eswatini	34.4	31.4	30.5	29.8	30.1	30.4	30.7
Ethiopia	33.0	28.3	23.2	22.5	23.0	23.4	23.9
Gabon	58.5	57.9	56.3	54.0	53.2	52.8	52.4
Gambia	62.1	60.6	57.9	53.9	51.7	50.6	49.5
Ghana	49.0	49.3	46.3	40.7	37.8	36.6	35.4
Guinea	52.4	52.6	51.4	49.9	49.0	48.5	48.0
Guinea-Bissau	53.8	52.7	50.7	49.1	48.5	48.3	48.1
Kenya	39.8	34.3	29.3	28.1	28.2	28.4	28.7
Lesotho	36.5	32.6	29.4	27.5	27.3	27.5	27.9
Liberia	53.0	48.7	44.8	42.7	42.4	42.5	42.6
Libya	32.6	30.7	28.8	28.9	29.4	29.6	29.9
Madagascar	42.6	40.5	37.9	37.4	37.5	37.7	37.8
Malawi	37.9	36.0	31.5	30.4	30.8	31.0	31.4
Mali	62.9	61.0	58.6	58.3	58.6	58.8	59.0
Mauritania	48.7	47.7	45.9	44.2	43.7	43.5	43.3
Mauritius	18.6	18.7	18.7	20.7	22.0	22.7	23.5
Morocco	35.3	33.2	30.5	29.5	29.6	29.7	29.9
Mozambique	49.4	50.3	49.2	48.3	48.1	48.0	47.9
Namibia	30.4	27.5	25.1	24.5	24.6	24.8	25.2
Niger	51.8	50.0	49.0	49.3	49.5	49.5	49.5
Nigeria	58.8	57.1	55.3	54.9	54.9	55.0	55.1
Rwanda	25.1	22.2	19.0	17.8	17.4	17.3	17.2
Sao Tome and Principe	51.9	49.3	46.4	45.0	44.5	44.3	44.2
Senegal	59.8	59.2	56.9	54.5	53.6	53.1	52.7
Seychelles	27.6	26.1	23.8	23.9	24.4	24.7	25.1
Sierra Leone	54.0	51.0	48.3	47.8	48.1	48.2	48.4
Somalia	47.9	46.6	44.6	43.5	43.3	43.2	43.1
South Africa	35.2	32.4	29.1	28.9	29.5	29.9	30.5
South Sudan	39.5	37.6	35.1	34.8	35.2	35.4	35.6
Sudan	42.9	40.2	37.4	36.3	36.4	36.4	36.5
Togo	49.7	49.3	48.0	46.7	46.1	45.9	45.7
Tunisia	31.5	30.9	30.3	30.8	31.4	31.7	32.1
Uganda	39.3	36.0	32.0	31.5	32.0	32.4	32.8
United Republic of Tanzania	46.5	45.1	41.4	39.7	39.1	39.0	38.9
Zambia	35.6	33.6	30.9	30.7	31.0	31.2	31.5
Zimbabwe	33.9	32.8	30.9	29.1	28.8	28.8	28.9

Source: WHO.

TABLE 21.

Prevalence of obesity among adults (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2013	2014	2015	2016
World	8.7	9.9	11.2	12.1	12.5	12.8	13.1
Africa	7.9	9.3	10.8	11.8	12.1	12.4	12.8
Central Africa	3.8	4.9	6.1	7.0	7.3	7.6	7.9
Eastern Africa	3.2	4.0	4.9	5.6	5.8	6.1	6.4
Northern Africa	17.0	19.3	22.0	23.6	24.1	24.6	25.2
Southern Africa	18.7	21.3	24.0	25.6	26.0	26.6	27.1
Western Africa	4.2	5.3	6.8	7.8	8.1	8.5	8.9
Algeria	17.4	20.2	23.3	25.3	26.0	26.7	27.4
Angola	3.6	4.8	6.2	7.1	7.5	7.9	8.2
Benin	5.0	6.2	7.6	8.6	8.9	9.3	9.6
Botswana	13.1	15.1	16.9	17.9	18.2	18.6	18.9
Burkina Faso	2.1	2.9	4.0	4.7	5.0	5.3	5.6
Burundi	2.4	3.1	4.0	4.6	4.9	5.1	5.4
Cabo Verde	6.3	7.9	9.6	10.7	11.0	11.4	11.8
Cameroon	5.8	7.3	9.0	10.2	10.6	11.0	11.4
Central African Republic	3.9	4.8	5.9	6.6	6.9	7.2	7.5
Chad	2.9	3.7	4.7	5.3	5.6	5.8	6.1
Comoros	4.1	5.1	6.2	6.9	7.2	7.5	7.8
Congo	5.2	6.3	7.7	8.6	8.9	9.2	9.6
Côte d’Ivoire	5.0	6.3	7.9	9.0	9.4	9.8	10.3
Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.1	4.0	5.1	5.9	6.1	6.4	6.7
Djibouti	9.3	10.5	11.8	12.6	12.9	13.2	13.5
Egypt	22.2	24.9	28.0	30.0	30.6	31.3	32.0
Equatorial Guinea	4.3	5.2	6.3	7.1	7.4	7.7	8.0
Eritrea	2.3	2.9	3.7	4.3	4.5	4.8	5.0
Eswatini	10.7	12.4	14.1	15.3	15.7	16.1	16.5
Ethiopia	1.9	2.5	3.3	3.8	4.0	4.3	4.5
Gabon	9.3	11.1	12.8	13.9	14.3	14.6	15.0
Gambia	4.8	6.3	8.0	9.1	9.5	9.9	10.3
Ghana	5.5	7.0	8.7	9.8	10.1	10.5	10.9
Guinea	3.7	4.7	5.9	6.7	7.0	7.4	7.7
Guinea-Bissau	4.3	5.6	7.2	8.3	8.7	9.1	9.5
Kenya	3.2	4.2	5.4	6.2	6.5	6.8	7.1
Lesotho	10.0	11.9	14.1	15.3	15.7	16.2	16.6
Liberia	5.6	6.6	8.0	8.9	9.2	9.6	9.9
Libya	23.5	26.0	28.8	30.6	31.3	31.9	32.5
Madagascar	2.3	3.0	3.9	4.5	4.8	5.1	5.3
Malawi	2.7	3.4	4.4	5.0	5.3	5.5	5.8
Mali	3.8	5.0	6.5	7.5	7.9	8.2	8.6
Mauritania	6.7	8.4	10.3	11.4	11.8	12.3	12.7
Mauritius	6.8	7.9	9.1	9.9	10.2	10.5	10.8
Morocco	16.7	19.2	22.1	24.1	24.7	25.4	26.1
Mozambique	3.7	4.6	5.7	6.4	6.7	6.9	7.2
Namibia	9.5	11.6	14.0	15.6	16.1	16.7	17.2
Niger	2.5	3.2	4.1	4.8	5.0	5.2	5.5
Nigeria	4.0	5.2	6.7	7.7	8.1	8.5	8.9
Rwanda	2.3	3.2	4.2	5.0	5.3	5.6	5.8
Sao Tome and Principe	6.3	8.0	10.0	11.2	11.6	12.0	12.4
Senegal	4.7	5.8	7.1	7.9	8.2	8.5	8.8
Seychelles	8.6	10.0	11.7	12.8	13.2	13.5	14.0
Sierra Leone	4.4	5.5	6.8	7.7	8.0	8.3	8.7
Somalia	4.1	5.2	6.4	7.3	7.6	7.9	8.3
South Africa	19.7	22.3	25.1	26.7	27.2	27.8	28.3
Togo	4.1	5.2	6.5	7.4	7.8	8.1	8.4
Tunisia	18.2	20.7	23.4	25.1	25.7	26.3	26.9
Uganda	2.4	3.1	3.9	4.5	4.8	5.0	5.3
United Republic of Tanzania	3.8	4.9	6.3	7.3	7.6	8.0	8.4
Zambia	4.2	5.1	6.3	7.1	7.4	7.7	8.1
Zimbabwe	10.5	12.2	13.8	14.6	14.9	15.2	15.5

Source: WHO.

TABLE 22.

Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding among infants 0–5 months of age (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	2018	2019
World							44.0
Africa							43.6
Eastern Africa							60.7
Northern Africa							42.1
Southern Africa							33.5
Western Africa							32.3
Algeria	12.6
Angola				37.4
Benin						41.4
Botswana					30.0
Burkina Faso			24.8		47.8	55.8
Burundi	59.2		69.3
Cabo Verde		59.6
Cameroon						39.4
Central African Republic	16.5		33.0
Chad	10.1		3.2
Comoros	10.2
Congo		19.1
Côte d’Ivoire	8.5
Democratic Republic of the Congo			36.4
Egypt	56.1	41.1
Equatorial Guinea	20.3
Eritrea			68.7
Eswatini	22.0		43.8
Ethiopia	54.1	48.8	52.0				58.8
Gabon	5.4
Gambia	24.6	39.7	33.1			53.3
Ghana						42.9
Guinea		27.0				33.4
Guinea-Bissau	27.5		38.3
Kenya	13.8
Lesotho	14.2					59.0
Madagascar	40.7					50.6
Malawi	44.0		70.8	59.4
Mali				31.5	37.3	40.2
Mauritania	20.2			41.1		40.3
Morocco			27.8		35.0
Namibia	16.6
Niger	1.1		26.9
Nigeria	15.4					25.2
Rwanda	83.0	88.4	83.8
Sao Tome and Principe	53.1
Senegal		30.9	39.0	33.3	42.1
Sierra Leone	2.8	8.4	31.2		47.2		54.1
Somalia	9.0
South Sudan			44.5
Sudan			41.0
Togo	17.4		62.1		64.3
Tunisia						13.5
Uganda	62.5
United Republic of Tanzania				59.0		57.8
Zambia						69.9
Zimbabwe		21.7	31.3	47.1			41.9

Source: UNICEF.

TABLE 23.

Prevalence of low birthweight (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2012	2013	2014	2015
World	17.5	16.4	15.3	15.0	14.8	14.7	14.6
Africa	16.1	15.2	14.3	14.1	14.0	13.8	13.7
Central Africa	14.3	13.7	13.1	12.8	12.7	12.6	12.5
Eastern Africa	16.1	15.0	14.1	13.8	13.7	13.5	13.4
Northern Africa	13.7	13.2	12.6	12.4	12.3	12.3	12.2
Southern Africa	15.0	14.7	14.4	14.3	14.3	14.3	14.2
Western Africa	17.9	16.8	16.0	15.6	15.5	15.4	15.2
Algeria	7.7	7.5	7.3	7.3	7.3	7.3	7.3
Angola	18.0	17.1	16.1	15.8	15.6	15.4	15.3
Benin	18.7	17.8	17.3	17.2	17.1	17.0	16.9
Botswana	16.3	16.3	16.0	15.9	15.8	15.7	15.6
Burkina Faso	15.8	14.8	13.8	13.5	13.4	13.2	13.1
Burundi	17.4	16.6	15.7	15.5	15.4	15.3	15.1
Cameroon	13.1	12.6	12.3	12.1	12.1	12.0	12.0
Central African Republic	15.4	15.3	15.0	14.8	14.7	14.6	14.5
Comoros	25.9	25.4	24.6	24.2	24.1	23.9	23.7
Congo	13.5	12.8	12.1	11.8	11.8	11.7	11.6
Côte d’Ivoire	17.5	16.9	16.1	15.8	15.7	15.6	15.5
Democratic Republic of the Congo	12.4	11.9	11.3	11.1	11.0	10.9	10.8
Eswatini	11.1	10.7	10.6	10.5	10.4	10.4	10.3
Gabon	15.3	15.0	14.6	14.4	14.4	14.3	14.2
Gambia	19.2	18.2	17.4	17.2	17.0	16.9	16.8
Ghana	16.1	15.3	14.8	14.5	14.4	14.3	14.2
Guinea-Bissau	25.3	23.9	22.4	21.8	21.5	21.3	21.1
Kenya	12.3	12.2	11.9	11.7	11.6	11.5	11.5
Lesotho	15.4	15.0	14.9	14.8	14.8	14.7	14.6
Madagascar	19.8	18.7	17.8	17.5	17.4	17.2	17.1
Malawi	17.2	15.8	15.2	14.9	14.7	14.6	14.5
Mauritius	12.7	14.7	16.5	17.0	17.1	17.1	17.1
Morocco	18.8	18.2	17.7	17.5	17.4	17.4	17.3
Mozambique	16.7	15.2	14.4	14.1	14.0	13.9	13.8
Namibia	16.5	16.0	15.8	15.7	15.6	15.6	15.5
Rwanda	10.3	9.2	8.4	8.2	8.0	8.0	7.9
Sao Tome and Principe	7.2	7.0	6.8	6.7	6.7	6.6	6.6
Senegal	22.0	20.6	19.3	18.9	18.7	18.6	18.5
Seychelles	9.0	10.3	10.8	11.0	11.2	11.4	11.7
Sierra Leone	17.2	16.4	15.3	14.9	14.8	14.6	14.4
South Africa	15.0	14.6	14.3	14.3	14.2	14.2	14.2
Togo	17.8	17.2	16.5	16.3	16.3	16.2	16.1
Tunisia	8.2	7.8	7.6	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5
United Republic of Tanzania	12.4	11.6	10.9	10.7	10.6	10.6	10.5
Zambia	13.5	12.6	12.1	11.9	11.8	11.7	11.6
Zimbabwe	12.4	12.7	12.9	12.8	12.7	12.7	12.6

Source: UNICEF and WHO.