Table 3. Status of malnourishment in Benin, Niger, and Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda for the year 2011 [30].

	Benin	Niger	Nigeria	Kenya	Uganda
	Cowpea			Corn	Matoke
Children below six (thousand)	1546	3196	27195	6805	6638
Stuntinga in per cent of children below five years of age	43 (<1)	51 (1.0)	41 (6.8)	35 (1.5)	33 (1.4)
Children stunted (thousand)	572	1,585	10,029	1,839	2,318
Children stunted rural areas (thousand)	337	763	5,938	1015	1405
Consumption (kg per head and year of crop)	9[31]b	1.5[31]b	18[31]b	98[32]	300[33]
Consumption increase (kg per year)	2.25	0.375	4.5	14	60
Calories supplied by yield increase per year	2610	435	5220	51100	53400
Per cent of demand ≅ effect on stunting in per cent[34]	0.51	0.09	1.02	10.00	10.48
Current costs of stunting (Mio USD per year)	572	1,585	10,029	1,839	2,318
Current costs of stunting in rural areas (Mio USD per year)	337	763	5,938	1015	1405
Cost reduction (Mio USD/year)	1.72	0.65	60.66	101.54	146.83
Cost reduction (Mio USD/year)c[5]	0.48	0.18	16.85	10.53	15.23

Note: Current costs per country estimated by 1000 USD per stunted child.

^aNumber in brackets indicate world share.

^bGrams per day per household multiplied by 365 and divided by 5 members per household, providing a range between 2.99 and 14.60 kg per year. A value of 10kg per year has been chosen.

^cBased on estimations by Smith and Haddad.