TABLE 6.
Percentage of the population aged ≥15 y meeting a specified number of global dietary recommendations
| Brazil | United States | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of recommendations | n 1 | Percentage meeting × number | Percentage meeting × number or more | n 1 | Percentage meeting × number | Percentage meeting × number or more |
| 0 | 159.8 | 0.5 | 100.0 | 191.9 | 1.1 | 100.0 |
| 1 | 953.3 | 3.2 | 99.5 | 1159.4 | 6.5 | 98.9 |
| 2 | 2466.1 | 8.2 | 96.3 | 2587.3 | 14.5 | 92.4 |
| 3 | 4456.8 | 14.8 | 88.1 | 3449.5 | 19.3 | 78.0 |
| 42 | 5966.1 | 19.8 | 73.3 | 3675.9 | 20.6 | 58.7 |
| 52 | 6876.3 | 22.9 | 53.4 | 2914.0 | 16.3 | 38.1 |
| 62 | 5728.7 | 19.1 | 30.5 | 2008.8 | 11.2 | 21.9 |
| 7 | 2677.6 | 8.9 | 11.5 | 1162.3 | 6.5 | 10.6 |
| 8 | 677.4 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 545.9 | 3.1 | 4.1 |
| 9 | 93.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 151.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
| 10 | 6.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Total | 30,062 | 100.0 | 17,887 | 100.0 | ||
1
The number of observations is survey-weighted.
2
Potential cutoffs for a dichotomous indicator that are based on the distribution of the number of recommendations being met, in the absence of a normative value for a cutoff.