Table 2.

Prevalence of stunting, overweight and stunted–overweight 6–59‐month‐old children in the MENA and LAC regions

MENA and LAC region		GDP per capita	Stunting (%)	Overweight (%)	Stunted–overweight double burden (Observed %)	Stunted–overweight double burden (Expected %)	Difference between observed and expected prevalence
MENA	Algeria, 2013	5,472	10.7	12.4	3.3	1.3	2.0
	Djibouti, 2006	966	33.5	13.9	7.4	4.6	2.7
	Egypt, 2014	3,328	22.4	15.4	8.0	3.4	4.5
	Iraq, 2011	5,855	20.4	10.9	4.8	2.2	2.6
	Jordan, 2012	4,088	7.6	3.9	0.4	0.3	0.1
	Morocco, 2003	1,722	23.8	13.0	5.6	3.1	2.5
	Palestine, 2014	2,961	7.4	7.6	1.0	0.6	0.4
	Sudan, 2014	2,177	41.2	2.6	1.7	1.1	0.6
	Syria, 2006	1,762	28.6	18.2	10.7	5.2	5.5
	Tunisia, 2012	4,138	8.7	14.1	2.5	1.2	1.3
	Yemen, 2013	1,580	49.1	2.1	1.2	1.0	0.1
	Pooled MENA	–	24.3	10.0	4.3	2.4	1.9
LAC	Barbados, 2012	16,536	6.4	11.1	1.9	0.7	1.2
	Belize, 2016	4,811	15.4	7.4	0.7	1.1	‐0.4
	Colombia, 2010	6,251	12.9	4.8	0.4	0.6	‐0.2
	Dominican Republic, 2013	6,027	6.7	7.1	0.6	0.5	0.2
	El Salvador, 2014	3,989	14.0	6.4	0.4	0.9	‐0.5
	Guatemala, 2015	3,924	48.2	3.2	0.7	1.6	‐0.8
	Guyana, 2014	4,031	10.7	5.3	1.0	0.6	0.4
	Haiti, 2012	767	22.2	3.2	0.9	0.7	0.2
	Honduras, 2011	2,121	23.5	5.0	0.5	1.2	‐0.7
	Mexico, 2015	9,143	13.1	5.0	0.3	0.7	‐0.4
	Paraguay, 2016	4,080	5.7	12.6	0.5	0.7	‐0.2
	Peru, 2012	6,388	18.4	7.0	0.3	1.3	‐1.0
	Suriname, 2010	8,303	7.6	3.8	0.5	0.3	0.2
	Pooled LAC	–	19.7	5.5	0.5	1.1	‐0.5

Abbreviations: LAC, Latin American and Caribbean regions; MENA, Middle East and North Africa.