TABLE 2.
Coverage estimates for salt among countries with mandatory food fortification legislation by subgroup
| Group | Subgroup | Ncountries mandatory2 | Coverage indicator1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household consumes the food |
Household consumes the fortifiable food |
Household consumes the fortified food |
Household consumes the adequately fortified food |
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| Ncountries with data3 | % (95% CI) | Ncountries with data3 | % (95% CI) | Ncountries with data3 | % (95% CI) | Ncountries with data3 | % (95% CI) | |||
| Total | 125 | 64 | 94.4 (93.2, 95.6) | 3 | 96.3 (89.2, 100.0)4 | 84 | 78.4 (73.9, 83.0) | 31 | 48.6 (39.2, 57.9) | |
| Region5 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 44 | 37 | 93.1 (92.0, 94.3) | 0 | —6 | 41 | 74.6 (67.7, 81.4) | 11 | 30.2 (21.1, 39.2) |
| Americas | 21 | 3 | 94.1 (92.2, 96.0) | 0 | —6 | 7 | 75.1 (51.3, 98.9) | 5 | 64.6 (42.2, 87.1) | |
| South Asia, East Asia, and Pacific | 35 | 12 | 93.9 (89.5, 98.4) | 1 | 100.0 (100.0, 100.0) | 15 | 80.5 (71.2, 89.9) | 3 | 57.9 (35.4, 80.4) | |
| Europe and Central Asia | 18 | 8 | 99.4 (99.0, 99.8) | 1 | 99.0 (99.8, 100.0)4 | 10 | 85.0 (73.8, 96.1) | 4 | 72.6 (48.8, 96.4) | |
| Middle East and North Africa | 6 | 4 | 98.1 (95.4, 100.0)4 | 1 | 89.0 (87.9, 90.1) | 11 | 86.1 (78.3, 93.9) | 8 | 48.2 (28.0, 68.4) | |
| Income | Low | 26 | 21 | 93.1 (91.1, 95.1) | 1 | 100.0 (100.0, 100.0) | 23 | 67.7 (57.4, 78.0) | 8 | 22.9(11.4, 34.4) |
| Lower middle | 39 | 33 | 94.6 (92.9, 96.4) | 1 | 89.0 (87.9, 90.1) | 40 | 80.6 (74.4, 86.8) | 14 | 48.6 (38.1, 589.0) | |
| Upper middle | 38 | 10 | 96.5 (94.2, 98.8) | 1 | 99.0 (99.8, 100.0)4 | 18 | 88.4 (82.3, 94.5) | 6 | 76.4 (57.6, 95.3) | |
| High | 21 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 3 | 71.2 (54.4, 88.0) | 3 | 60.5 (37.3, 83.7) | |
| Residence | Urban | 124 | 57 | 94.7 (93.5, 95.8) | 3 | 97.7 (93.4, 100.0)4 | 60 | 80.5 (75.3, 85.7) | 13 | 43.9 (26.0, 61.8) |
| Rural | 124 | 57 | 94.7 (93.3, 96.1) | 3 | 93.3 (80.2, 100.0)4 | 59 | 75.6 (70.1, 81.1) | 12 | 33.1 (18.9, 47.2) | |
| Socioeconomic status7 | Poorest | 124 | 53 | 91.8 (89.5, 94.1) | 0 | —6 | 54 | 72.0 (66.3, 77.7) | 8 | 31.1 (16.5, 45.6) |
| Second | 124 | 53 | 93.5 (91.9, 95.1) | 0 | —6 | 54 | 75.6 (69.9, 81.3) | 8 | 35.9 (20.8, 51.0) | |
| Middle | 124 | 53 | 94.1 (92.7, 95.5) | 0 | —6 | 54 | 78.3 (72.9, 83.8) | 8 | 35.8 (18.9, 52.8) | |
| Fourth | 124 | 53 | 94.7 (93.5, 95.9) | 0 | —6 | 54 | 80.5 (75.0, 85.9) | 8 | 39.3 (21.1, 57.5) | |
| Wealthiest | 124 | 53 | 96.7 (95.9, 97.4) | 0 | —6 | 54 | 82.9 (77.2, 88.7) | 8 | 43.8 (23.5, 64.1) | |
Coverage indicators were defined as the proportion of households consuming the: 1) food (in any form), 2) fortifiable food (that is, industrially or centrally processed), 3) fortified food (that is, fortified to any extent), and 4) adequately fortified food (that is, fortified in accordance with national or international fortification standards).
Total number of countries with mandatory food fortification legislation as of June 2021 in total or by subgroup.
Total number of countries with mandatory food fortification legislation as of June 2021 and coverage data collected between 2010 and 2021.
The upper limit of the 95% CI was capped at 100%.
Region and income group were defined as per the World Bank Group classifications [31].
There were insufficient data available to conduct these subgroup analyses.
Socioeconomic status was defined as per country wealth quintiles.