Table 1.

- Prevalence and occurrence of malnutrition amongst the children below 5 years in the Eastern Mediterranean Regional countries.

ID	Country	Stunting*	Underweight†	Wasting‡	Overweight§
1	Bahrain (1995)	13.6	7.6	6.6	4.9
2	Lebanon (2004)	16.5	4.2	6.6	16.7
3	Egypt (2014)	22.3	7.0	9.5	15.7
4	Tunisia (2018)	8.4	1.6	2.1	17.2
5	Oman (2017)	11.4	11.2	9.3	4.2
6	Islamic Republic of Iran (2010)	6.8	4.1	4.0	11.8
7	Libya (2014)	38.1	11.7	10.2	29.6
8	Saudi Arabia (2007)	9.3	5.3	10.8	6.1
9	Qatar (1996)	11.6	4.8	2.1	10.4
10	Syrian Arab Republic (2009)	27.9	10.4	11.6	17.9
11	United Arab Emirates (1995)	16.7	14.4	15.2	Data unavailable
12	Morocco (2017/18)	15.1	2.6	2.6	10.9
13	Kuwait (2017)	6.4	3.0	2.5	5.1
14	Jordan (2012)	7.8	3.0	2.4	4.7
15	Yemen (2013)	46.4	39.9	16.4	2.5
16	Afghanistan (2018)	38.2	19.1	5.1	4.1
17	Iraq (2018)	12.6	3.9	3.0	6.6
18	Pakistan (2017/18)	37.6	23.1	7.1	2.5
19	Sudan (2014)	38.2	33.1	16.3	3.0
20	Djibouti (2013)	33.5	29.9	21.5	8.1
21	Somalia (2009)	25.3	22.5	14.3	3.0
22	State of Palestine (2014)	7.4	1.4	1.2	8.2
	EMR	24.2 (15.6-35.5) (2019)	12.8 (6.4-22.6) (2019)	7.5 (5.9-9.4) (2019)	7.7 (6.5-9.0) (2019)

Values are presented as percentages. ^*,†,‡Bahrain, 2000,2018; ^*,†,‡,§Lebanon,2006; ^*,†,‡,§Egypt,2015; ^*,†,‡,§Tunisia, 2018; ^*,†,‡,§Oman, 2017; ^*,†,‡Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014, 2018^‡; ^*,†,‡,§Libya,2014; ^*,†,‡,§Saudi Arabia, 2007; ^a,b,c,dQatar, 1996; ^*,†,‡,§Syrian Arab Republic, 2011; ^*,†,‡UAE, 2018; ^*,†,‡,§Morocco, 2017/18; ^*,†,§Kuwait, 2017, 1999/2009^§; ^*,†,‡,§ Jordan, 2012; ^*,†,‡,§ Yemen,2013; ^*,†,‡,§Afghanistan, 2018; ^*,†,‡,§ Iraq, 2018; ^*,†,‡,§ Pakistan, 2017/18; ^*,†,‡,§Sudan, 2014; ^*,†,‡,§ Djibouti, 2013; ^*,†,‡,§ Somalia, 2009; ^*,†,‡,§ State of Palestine, 2015