Table 1.

Comparison of protein–energy malnutrition with iron micronutrient deficiency and diarrheal disease^a

Condition	Prevalence (no. of cases)	Deaths	Disability-adjusted life years	Worst affected areas
Protein–energy malnutrition	148 million	212 000	15.3 million	East Africa Sahelian West Africa Indonesia Mesoamerica Haiti
Iron-micronutrient deficiency and anemia	Not determined	42 300	31.3 million	East Africa Sahelian West Africa Yemen India and Pakistan Papua New Guinea
Hookworm disease	173 million	—	1.0 million	East and Central Africa Sahelian West Africa India Papua New Guinea, Laos
Malaria	181 million	643 000	46.4 million	Central and West Africa India
Diarrheal disease and illness	99 million	1.53 million	80.9 million	East Africa Sahelian West Africa India

^aData from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (https://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2019).