Table 2.

Descriptive statistics

Country	Year of survey	Percentage of children stunted	Percentage of mothers overweight	Percentage of children in stunted child–overweight mother pairs	Percentage Urbanized	GNP per capita (1995 US Dollars)
Africa
Benin	96	27.1	10.8	2.0	38.4	371
Burkina Faso	92	35.2	8.3	1.9	13.6	241
Cameroon	97	35.1	21.3	5.4	44.7	588
Central African Republic	94	38.8	7.0	2.5	39.1	317
Comoros	96	36.3	20.3	5.5	30.4	424
Cote d’Ivoire	94	27.4	14.2	2.7	43.4	641
Egypt	95	28.3	55.2	14.0	44.6	1027
Ghana	93	27.8	13.4	2.2	33.9	372
Kenya	98	35.1	12.4	2.6	28.6	330
Madagascar	97	57.6	3.7	1.4	26.4	229
Malawi	92	54.6	9.6	4.6	11.8	158
Mali	95	34.5	10.4	2.1	26.8	249
Morocco	92	21.3	34.4	5.2	48.2	1247
Mozambique	97	39.5	12.3	2.5	33.8	162
Namibia	92	30.6	21.1	3.7	31.0	2186
Niger	98	43.4	14.0	3.3	18.2	212
Senegal	92	24.2	19.6	2.2	40.4	541
Tanzania	96	47.8	13.8	4.8	24.2	171
Tchad	96	45.3	5.2	1.8	22.2	212
Togo	98	25.1	12.4	2.0	30.7	327
Uganda	95	43.1	8.9	3.1	12.5	297
Zambia	96	46.1	13.1	4.3	43.0	377
Zimbabwe	94	24.6	23.8	4.3	31.8	632
Asia
Bangladesh	96	54.7	4.2	1.3	18.3	334
Kazakhstan	95	16.9	24.1	2.6	59.6	1237
Kyrgyz Republic	97	28.8	18.5	4.4	38.8	817
Nepal	96	53.2	1.8	0.6	10.3	215
Uzbekistan	96	33.2	15.2	5.5	41.1	969
Latin America
Bolivia	98	26.0	46.7	11.0	60.5	937
Brazil	96	9.6	35.4	2.7	78.4	4428
Colombia	95	14.0	40.7	5.0	72.6	2321
Dominican Republic	91	9.3	37.8	2.2	58.3	1293
Guatemala	95	51.3	34.3	13.4	38.9	1452
Haiti	95	33.7	11.8	2.0	31.8	366
Nicaragua	96	24.6	40.2	8.2	62.1	364
Peru	96	25.8	45.2	9.8	70.9	2445

GNP, gross national product.