Table 1.
Numbers of 1000s of infants born small for gestational age (SGA) in 2012 with INTERGROWTH-21st birth weight standard in low and middle income countries in regions covered by UN Millennium Development Goals
| No of live births (1000s) | No (UR*) of term SGA (1000s) | No (UR*) of preterm SGA (1000s | Total No (UR*) of SGA (1000s) | % prevalence (UR*) SGA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not low birth weight | Low birth weight† | |||||
| Caucasus/Central Asia | 1774.3 | 87.0 (49.2 to 148.6) | 89.1 (50.8 to 152.0) | 19.4 (9.4 to 41.6) | 195.5 (121.1 to 314.1) | 11.0 (6.2 to 19.3) |
| Eastern Asia | 19 097.2 | 387.4 (170.4 to 788.5) | 396.8 (180.0 to 799.2) | 165.4 (82.6 to 320.1) | 949.5 (536.7 to 1735.4) | 5.0 (2.4 to 10.4) |
| Latin America/Caribbean | 10 833.3 | 516.3 (406.5 to 1157.1) | 303.2 (241.1 to 687.5) | 110.8 (83.3 to 243.5) | 930.3 (793.2 to 2019.5) | 8.6 (6.7 to 19.3) |
| Northern Africa | 3989.8 | 120.9 (59.8 to 233.0) | 102.6 (49.8 to 200.6) | 24.6 (10.3 to 53.7) | 248.2 (138.9 to 455.7) | 6.2 (3.0 to 12.2) |
| Oceania | 266.4 | 20.0 (12.1 to 31.6) | 20.4 (12.9 to 32.4) | 2.3 (1.0 to 6.3) | 42.7 (28.1 to 66.0) | 16.0 (9.8 to 26.4) |
| South East Asia | 9691.1 | 941.7 (587.6 to 1448.6) | 964.6 (609.8 to 1499.1) | 183.5 (88.0 to 386.4) | 2089.9 (1403.2 to 3157.7) | 21.6 (14.2 to 37.7) |
| South Asia | 36 625.8 | 5908.5 (3849.1 to 8672.5) | 6052.1 (3974.6 to 8954.2) | 577.1 (291.6 to 1162.3) | 12 537.7 (8651.8 to 18 100.0) | 34.2 (22.2 to 51.3) |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 33 727.5 | 2829.5 (1522.8 to 5105.4) | 2400.6 (1253.1 to 4297.7) | 345.0 (158.9 to 716.8) | 5575.2 (3276.3 to 9277.2) | 16.5 (8.7 to 25.1) |
| Western Asia | 4 844.9 | 346.0 (213.3 to 538.3) | 354.4 (224.7 to 558.5) | 56.2 (28.2 to 118.2) | 756.6 (504.6 to 1154.3) | 15.6 (9.6 to 25.1) |
| Total | 120 850.2 | 11 157.4 (8195.4 to 15 798.3) | 10 683.9 (7616.9 to 15 017.0) | 1484.3 (902.2 to 2628.7) | 23 325.6 (17 599.3 to 31 914.8) | 19.3 (11.9 to 32.1) |
*Uncertainty range (UR) derived with bootstrap approach (see appendix 4).
†≤2500 g.