Tables (Cont.)

Table 2. FOOD AVAILABILITY, DIET DIVERSIFICATION, POVERTY, HEALTH , CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS in developing countries and countries in transition, classified by category of prevalence of undernourishment
CATEGORY OF PREVALENCE of undernourishment in total population 1998-2000; region and country	FOOD AVAILABILITY AND DIET DIVERSIFICATION		POVERTY	HEALTH		CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS
	Dietary energy supply (DES)	Share of non-starchy food in total DES	People living on less than US$1 per day	Life expectancy at birth	Under-five mortality rate	Underweight children under five years of age
	1998-2000		1990s (last survey)	2000		1990-2000 (last survey)
	kcal/day per person	%	%	years	per 1 000 births	%
Less than 2.5% undernourished
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Hong Kong SAR of China	3 100	70	na	80	na	na
Malaysia	2 930	56	na	73	9	18
Rep. of Korea	3 060	49	-	73	5	na
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Argentina	3 180	66	na	74	21	na
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	3 300	53	na	71	20	5
Tunisia	3 360	48	-	72	28	4
Turkey	3 390	47	2	70	45	8
United Arab Emirates	3 180	65	na	75	9	14
COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION
Belarus	3 050	53	-	68	20	na
Czech Rep.	3 170	69	-	75	5	1
Estonia	3 250	53	-	71	21	na
Hungary	3 420	70	-	71	9	na
Poland	3 370	58	-	73	10	na
Romania	3 280	47	3	70	22	6
Slovakia	3 100	65	-	73	9	na
Slovenia	3 080	61	-	75	5	na
2.5 to 4% undernourished
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Chile	2 850	57	-	76	12	1
Uruguay	2 850	63	-	74	17	5
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Egypt	3 320	34	3	67	43	12
Kuwait	3 130	62	na	77	10	10
Lebanon	3 160	62	na	70	32	3
Saudi Arabia	2 840	51	na	73	29	14
Syrian Arab Rep.	3 050	52	na	70	29	13
COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION
Lithuania	3 010	47	-	73	21	na
TFYR of Macedonia	2 960	58	na	73	26	6
5 to 19% undernourished
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
China*	3 030	39	19	70	40	10
Indonesia	2 900	29	8	66	48	26
Myanmar	2 820	24	na	56	110	36
Nepal	2 380	21	38	59	100	47
Pakistan	2 460	47	31	63	110	38
Thailand	2 480	49	-	69	29	19
Viet Nam	2 540	26	na	69	39	33
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Brazil	2 960	65	12	68	38	6
Colombia	2 570	60	20	72	30	7
Costa Rica	2 780	62	13	77	12	5
Cuba	2 560	60	na	76	9	4
Ecuador	2 680	62	20	70	32	15
El Salvador	2 460	46	21	70	40	12
Guyana	2 550	48	na	63	74	12
Jamaica	2 680	59	3	75	20	4
Mexico	3 150	53	16	73	30	8
Panama	2 410	62	14	75	26	7
Paraguay	2 540	57	20	70	31	5
Peru	2 600	46	16	69	50	8
Suriname	2 630	57	na	70	33	na
Trinidad and Tobago	2 720	61	12	73	20	na
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Algeria	2 960	39	-	71	65	6
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	2 910	39	na	69	44	11
Jordan	2 720	47	-	72	34	5
Morocco	3 010	36	-	67	46	9
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Benin	2 570	26	na	53	154	29
Côte d'Ivoire	2 590	33	12	46	173	21
Gabon	2 550	55	na	53	90	na
Ghana	2 650	28	45	57	102	25
Mauritania	2 660	45	29	52	183	23
Mauritius	2 970	54	na	72	20	16
Namibia	2 600	27	35	47	69	26
Nigeria	2 840	35	70	47	184	27
Swaziland	2 570	52	na	46	142	na
COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION
Albania	2 750	52	na	74	31	14
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 810	42	na	73	18	4
Bulgaria	2 640	63	-	72	16	na
Croatia	2 480	62	-	73	9	1
Georgia	2 440	38	-	73	29	3
Kazakhstan	2 720	41	-	65	75	4
Kyrgyzstan	2 830	34	na	67	63	11
Latvia	2 880	58	-	70	21	na
Rep. of Moldova	2 730	48	11	68	33	3
Russian Fed.	2 900	52	7	65	22	3
Turkmenistan	2 720	37	12	66	70	na
Ukraine	2 830	49	3	68	21	3
Uzbekistan	2 370	42	3	70	67	19
Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. of **	2 750	68	na	72	20	2
20 to 34% undernourished
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea	2 170	32	na	61	30	60
India	2 430	38	44	63	96	47
Lao People's Dem. Rep.	2 240	21	26	54	105	40
Papua New Guinea	2 180	44	na	59	112	na
Philippines	2 360	44	na	69	40	28
Sri Lanka	2 360	44	7	73	19	33
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Bolivia	2 210	51	14	63	80	10
Dominican Rep.	2 310	67	3	67	48	5
Guatemala	2 160	47	10	65	59	24
Honduras	2 390	54	24	66	40	25
Nicaragua	2 240	49	na	69	45	12
Venezuela	2 280	60	23	73	23	5
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Iraq	2 150	34	na	61	130	16
Yemen	2 040	33	16	56	117	46
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Botswana	2 240	50	na	39	101	13
Burkina Faso	2 320	25	61	44	198	34
Cameroon	2 270	41	33	50	154	21
Chad	2 180	40	na	48	198	28
Congo	2 170	36	na	51	108	14
Gambia	2 400	45	59	53	128	17
Guinea	2 240	41	na	46	175	23
Lesotho	2 300	19	43	44	133	16
Malawi	2 160	24	na	39	188	25
Mali	2 400	28	73	42	233	43
Senegal	2 260	40	26	52	139	18
Sudan	2 360	43	na	56	108	17
Togo	2 370	21	na	49	142	25
Uganda	2 330	56	na	42	127	26
COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION
Azerbaijan	2 330	33	-	72	105	17
35% OR MORE UNDERNOURISHED
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Bangladesh	2 100	16	29	61	82	48
Cambodia	1 990	22	na	54	135	46
Mongolia	2 020	56	14	67	78	13
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Haiti	2 040	46	na	53	125	28
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Afghanistan	1 630	27	na	43	257	48
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Angola	1 890	33	na	47	295	na
Burundi	1 620	51	na	42	190	45
Central African Rep.	1 950	44	67	43	180	24
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	1 590	23	na	46	207	34
Eritrea	1 710	22	na	52	114	44
Ethiopia	1 880	19	31	42	174	47
Kenya	1 960	41	27	47	120	23
Liberia	2 140	38	na	47	235	na
Madagascar	2 010	25	49	55	139	33
Mozambique	1 910	23	38	42	200	26
Niger	2 100	28	61	46	270	40
Rwanda	2 020	52	na	40	187	29
Sierra Leone	1 980	36	57	39	316	27
Somalia	1 600	65	na	48	225	26
United Rep. of Tanzania	1 920	30	20	44	165	29
Zambia	1 900	21	64	38	202	25
Zimbabwe	2 110	38	36	40	117	13
COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION
Armenia	2 040	36	8	74	30	3
Tajikistan	1 790	31	na	69	73	na
Key: * includes Taiwan Province of China for FAO estimates; ** Serbia and Montenegro; na not available; - proportion less than 2%. Notes: The underweight refers to children below five years of age (0-59 months), except: 0-35 months Benin, Eritrea, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Togo and Uzbekistan; 0-71 months Chile, Congo, and Costa Rica; 6-59 months Dem. People's Rep. of Korea, Nepal and TFYR Macedonia; 3-35 months Bolivia and Mali; 12-71 months Croatia and Honduras; 3-59 months El Salvador and Guatemala;banner1.gif 6-35 months Afghanistan; 0-72 months China; 0-36 months Côte d'Ivoire; 0-48 months Guyana; 0-47 months Uganda. Sources: Dietary energy supply (DES) and share of non-starchy food: FAO estimates; Poverty: World Development Indicators 2002, World Bank; Life expectancy at birth: World Development Indicators online database, World Bank, July 2002; Under-five mortality and child nutritional status: UNICEF online database, Sept. 2001.