Table 2. Prevalence of children with low ECDI scores.
| Country | Sample Size | Low Cognitive and/or Socioemotional ECDI Score | Low Cognitive ECDI Score | Low Socioemotional ECDI Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Percent | n | Percent | n | Percent | ||
| Bangladesh | 7,713 | 2,956 | 38.3% | 908 | 11.8% | 2,319 | 30.1% |
| Barbados | 171 | 31 | 18.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 30 | 17.8% |
| Belize | 719 | 156 | 21.6% | 9 | 1.2% | 150 | 20.9% |
| Bhutan | 2,200 | 749 | 34.1% | 145 | 6.6% | 656 | 29.8% |
| Bosnia | 963 | 42 | 4.4% | 5 | 0.6% | 37 | 3.8% |
| Cameroon | 1,587 | 843 | 53.1% | 247 | 15.6% | 715 | 45.0% |
| Central African Republic | 3,358 | 1,817 | 54.1% | 818 | 24.4% | 1,337 | 39.8% |
| Chad | 4,451 | 2,982 | 67.0% | 2,347 | 52.7% | 1,308 | 29.4% |
| Congo | 1,486 | 729 | 49.0% | 216 | 14.5% | 622 | 41.9% |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3,726 | 1,786 | 47.9% | 1,050 | 28.2% | 1,072 | 28.8% |
| Ghana | 2,928 | 955 | 32.6% | 309 | 10.5% | 778 | 26.6% |
| Honduras | 2,800 | 477 | 17.0% | 34 | 1.2% | 464 | 16.6% |
| Iraq | 13,119 | 3,714 | 28.3% | 1,391 | 10.6% | 2,834 | 21.6% |
| Jordan | 2,597 | 983 | 37.8% | 257 | 9.9% | 799 | 30.7% |
| Kazakhstan | 1,686 | 230 | 13.6% | 80 | 4.8% | 156 | 9.3% |
| Kosovo | 595 | 93 | 15.6% | 12 | 2.1% | 85 | 14.2% |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1,683 | 321 | 19.1% | 110 | 6.6% | 235 | 14.0% |
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 4,052 | 719 | 17.7% | 249 | 6.2% | 502 | 12.4% |
| Lebanon | 695 | 159 | 22.9% | 48 | 7.0% | 123 | 17.7% |
| Macedonia | 523 | 47 | 8.9% | 6 | 1.2% | 42 | 8.0% |
| Malawi | 7,330 | 2,930 | 40.0% | 1,338 | 18.2% | 1,986 | 27.1% |
| Montenegro | 1,206 | 51 | 4.3% | 9 | 0.8% | 42 | 3.5% |
| Nepal | 2,142 | 900 | 42.0% | 378 | 17.7% | 655 | 30.6% |
| Nigeria | 9,382 | 4,289 | 45.7% | 1,991 | 21.2% | 3,113 | 33.2% |
| Pakistan | 1,463 | 704 | 48.1% | 461 | 31.5% | 381 | 26.1% |
| Republic of Moldova | 620 | 124 | 20.0% | 3 | 0.5% | 121 | 19.5% |
| Saint Lucia | 113 | 12 | 11.0% | 2 | 1.5% | 12 | 10.6% |
| Serbia | 3,193 | 155 | 4.9% | 13 | 0.4% | 146 | 4.6% |
| Sierra Leone | 3,232 | 1,755 | 54.3% | 713 | 22.1% | 1,281 | 39.6% |
| Suriname | 997 | 319 | 32.0% | 13 | 1.3% | 309 | 31.0% |
| Swaziland | 1,011 | 430 | 42.5% | 68 | 6.8% | 388 | 38.4% |
| Togo | 1,669 | 789 | 47.3% | 319 | 19.1% | 548 | 32.8% |
| Tunisia | 1,024 | 286 | 27.9% | 70 | 6.9% | 249 | 24.3% |
| Viet Nam | 1,366 | 229 | 16.8% | 112 | 8.2% | 134 | 9.8% |
| Zimbabwe | 7,422 | 2,785 | 37.5% | 759 | 10.2% | 2,338 | 31.5% |
| Total | 99,222 | 35,547 | 35.8% | 14,492 | 14.6% | 25,967 | 26.2% |
Children were classified as “low development” in an ECDI domain if they received a score of zero on more than one item within the domain.