Table 1.
Data on nutritional status and birth registration in the thirty-seven sub-Saharan African countries considered in the present research
| Country | Code | Stunting (%) | Underweight (%) | Wasting (%) | n NS | BR rate (%) | n tot | Survey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | BEN | 43·1 | 18·4 | 8·4 | 13 099 | 60·3 | 14 563 | DHS, 2006* |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 34·6 | 25·7 | 15·5 | 6994 | 76·9 | 14 704 | DHS, 2010 |
| Burundi | BDI | 57·7 | 28·8 | 5·8 | 3590 | 75·2 | 7600 | DHS, 2010 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 32·5 | 14·6 | 5·6 | 5860 | 61·4 | 11 802 | DHS, 2011 |
| Central African Republic (The) | CAF | 40·7 | 23·5 | 7·4 | 10 255 | 61·0 | 10 474 | MICS, 2010 |
| Chad | TCD | 38·7 | 30·3 | 15·7 | 14 949 | 15·7 | 17 005 | MICS, 2010 |
| Congo (The) | COG | 24·4 | 11·6 | 5·9 | 4591 | 90·8 | 8558 | DHS, 2011–12 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 34·0 | 20·2 | 6·9 | 8099 | 54·9 | 8604 | MICS, 2006* |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo (The) | COD | 43·4 | 24·2 | 8·5 | 10 662 | 28·0 | 11 093 | MICS, 2010† |
| Equatorial Guinea | GNQ | 26·2 | 5·6 | 3·1 | 1094 | 53·5 | 2932 | DHS, 2011 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 46·5 | 38·4 | 10·5 | 4586 | 6·6 | 10 831 | DHS, 2005* |
| Gabon | GAB | 16·5 | 6·0 | 3·3 | 3856 | 89·6 | 5952 | DHS, 2012 |
| Gambia (The) | GMB | 23·4 | 17·4 | 9·5 | 11 425 | 52·5 | 11 637 | MICS, 2010 |
| Ghana | GHA | 22·7 | 13·4 | 6·2 | 7381 | 62·5 | 7550 | MICS, 2011 |
| Guinea | GIN | 31·2 | 18·0 | 9·6 | 3531 | 57·9 | 7073 | DHS, 2012 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 32·2 | 18·1 | 5·8 | 12 354 | 24·1 | 12 767 | MICS, 2010 |
| Kenya | KEN | 35·3 | 16·1 | 6·7 | 5470 | 60·0 | 5956 | DHS, 2008–09‡ |
| Lesotho | LSO | 39·2 | 13·2 | 3·8 | 2086 | 45·1 | 4174 | DHS, 2009 |
| Liberia | LBR | 39·4 | 19·2 | 7·5 | 5166 | 3·6 | 6028 | DHS, 2007 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 50·1 | – | – | 5436 | 79·7 | 13 134 | DHS, 2008–09‡ |
| Mali | MLI | 38·3 | 25·5 | 12·7 | 4857 | 84·3 | 10 748 | DHS, 2012–13 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 29·7 | 24·4 | 13·9 | 8668 | 58·8 | 9278 | MICS, 2011 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 42·6 | 14·9 | 5·9 | 10 313 | 47·9 | 10 718 | DHS, 2011 |
| Namibia | NAM | 29·0 | 16·6 | 7·5 | 4945 | 67·1 | 5461 | DHS, 2006–7 |
| Niger (The) | NER | 43·9 | 36·4 | 18·0 | 5481 | 63·9 | 13 584 | DHS, 2012 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 36·8 | 28·7 | 18·0 | 26 190 | 29·8 | 30 108 | DHS, 2013 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 44·2 | 11·4 | 2·8 | 4356 | 63·2 | 8971 | DHS, 2010 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | STP | 29·3 | 13·1 | 10·5 | 1544 | 75·1 | 2101 | DHS, 2008–09 |
| Senegal | SEN | 26·5 | 17·7 | 10·1 | 3761 | 74·6 | 12 226 | DHS, 2010–11 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 44·4 | 21·7 | 8·5 | 7952 | 78·0 | 8598 | MICS, 2010 |
| Somalia | SOM | 37·8 | 35·6 | 11·0 | 5424 | 3·0 | 6305 | MICS, 2006§ |
| Swaziland | SWZ | 30·9 | 5·8 | 0·8 | 2560 | 49·5 | 2647 | MICS, 2010 |
| Togo | TGO | 29·7 | 16·6 | 4·8 | 4668 | 77·9 | 4746 | MICS, 2010 |
| Uganda | UGA | 33·4 | 13·8 | 4·7 | 2350 | 29·9 | 8361 | DHS, 2011 |
| United Republic of Tanzania (The) | TZA | 42·0 | 15·8 | 4·8 | 7491 | 16·3 | 8081 | DHS, 2010 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 45·4 | 14·6 | 5·2 | 5602 | 14·0 | 6341 | DHS, 2007 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 32·0 | 9·7 | 3·0 | 5260 | 48·8 | 5912 | DHS, 2010–11 |
Code, three-letter code for each country provided in ISO 3166; n NS, sample size used for nutritional assessment (as retrieved from reports (nutritional status)); BR, birth registration; n tot, total sample size (retrieved from reports (birth registration)); DHS, Demographic and Health Survey (http://www.dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm); MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (http://www.childinfo.org/mics_available.html).
More recent reports have been published, but they lack some necessary data (BR or wealth quintiles).
Total sample size retrieved from the data set.
More recent reports have been published for sub-regions: South Madagascar and Nyanza Province of Kenya.
More recent reports, related to new Somaliland and Somalia (Northeast Zone), have been published, but they lack data on BR and nutritional status.