Annex I

Annex I DATA TABLES

TABLE 13.

Prevalence of undernourishment (percent)

	2000–2002	2004–2006	2009–2011	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	13.2	12.3	9.4	8.3	8.2	8.3	8.9
Asia and the Pacific	14.7	13.9	9.7	8.0	7.5	7.4	7.9
Eastern Asia	9.4	6.9	2.7	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
East Asia (excluding China)	5.5	5.6	6.9	6.1	6.3	6.2	6.2
Oceania	6.6	6.7	5.6	6.1	6.2	6.2	6.2
South-eastern Asia	20.0	17.1	11.9	8.2	7.4	7.1	7.1
Southern Asia	18.4	19.9	15.5	13.9	13.1	13.1	14.1
South Asia (excluding India)	18.2	15.4	14.1	11.8	11.2	10.9	11.0
Afghanistan	47.8	36.1	23.7	21.5	23.0	23.4	25.6
Australia	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
American Samoa
Bangladesh	15.9	14.2	15.2	14.0	12.5	10.8	9.7
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam	2.6	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
Cambodia	23.6	17.0	13.3	8.9	7.7	6.8	6.2
China	10.0	7.0	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
Cook Islands
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	35.7	33.8	42.6	40.3	42.9	42.6	42.4
Fiji	4.0	3.7	4.0	6.4	6.3	5.8	5.6
French Polynesia	4.2	3.8	3.5	3.6	4.0	3.9	3.8
India	18.4	21.6	16.0	14.7	13.8	14.0	15.3
Indonesia	19.2	19.2	13.0	7.0	6.4	6.4	6.5
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	4.8	5.2	6.0	4.7	5.2	5.4	5.5
Japan	<2.5	<2.5	2.7	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
Kiribati	4.4	5.3	5.6	3.2	3.5	3.8	4.1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	31.2	22.4	16.0	6.7	5.6	5.4	5.3
Malaysia	2.5	3.2	3.2	3.8	3.4	3.2	3.2
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Mongolia	31.1	29.6	19.1	8.4	6.3	5.5	4.3
Myanmar	37.6	27.8	13.1	8.9	8.1	7.8	7.6
Nauru
Nepal	23.5	16.8	10.5	5.3	4.2	4.3	4.8
New Zealand	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
Niue
Pakistan	21.1	17.6	15.9	12.8	12.1	12.2	12.9
Palau
Papua New Guinea	26.3	27.4	22.7	25.0	25.1	24.9	24.6
Philippines	18.7	14.9	13.4	13.3	10.9	9.7	9.4
Republic of Korea	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5	<2.5
Samoa	3.5	3.4	4.2	4.5	4.7	4.6	4.6
Singapore
Solomon Islands	13.3	12.5	13.5	18.4	17.6	17.0	16.5
Sri Lanka	16.9	14.7	11.3	6.8	5.9	6.0	6.8
Thailand	17.3	11.9	10.0	7.3	7.7	7.9	8.2
Timor-Leste	41.5	32.2	32.5	24.5	24.0	23.3	22.6
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu	7.4	6.3	5.2	8.1	9.6	9.5	9.3
Viet Nam	19.7	15.5	11.0	8.1	7.2	6.8	6.7

Source: FAO.

TABLE 14.

Number of undernourished people (millions)

	2000–2002	2004–2006	2009–2011	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	819.2	804.0	652.3	613.8	622.7	632.9	683.9
Asia and the Pacific	525.1	521.3	381.4	330.0	315.6	317.2	337.9
Eastern Asia	144.1	107.4	43.4
East Asia (excluding China)	11.4	11.9	14.7	13.1	13.6	13.4	13.3
Oceania	2.1	2.3	2.1	2.4	2.5	2.6	2.6
South-eastern Asia	106.6	95.8	71.2	52.3	47.8	46.5	46.7
Southern Asia	272.4	315.9	264.7	253.5	245.1	248.9	269.5
South Asia (excluding India)	74.1	68.1	67.5	61.3	60.1	59.0	60.9
Afghanistan	10.3	9.2	6.9	7.4	8.3	8.7	9.7
American Samoa
Australia
Bangladesh	20.7	19.7	22.4	21.8	20.0	17.5	15.9
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam	<0.1
Cambodia	2.9	2.3	1.9	1.4	1.2	1.1	1.0
China	132.5	95.4
Cook Islands
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	8.2	8.1	10.5	10.1	10.9	10.9	10.9
Fiji	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
French Polynesia	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
India	198.3	247.8	197.2	192.3	184.9	189.9	208.6
Indonesia	41.1	43.5	31.3	18.2	16.8	17.2	17.6
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	3.2	3.6	4.4	3.7	4.2	4.4	4.6
Japan			3.4
Kiribati	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	1.7	1.3	1.0	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4
Malaysia	0.6	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.0
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Mongolia	0.8	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1
Myanmar	17.7	13.6	6.6	4.7	4.3	4.2	4.1
Nauru
Nepal	5.7	4.3	2.8	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.4
New Zealand
Niue
Pakistan	30.8	28.2	28.6	25.5	25.2	25.8	27.9
Palau
Papua New Guinea	1.6	1.8	1.7	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.2
Philippines	14.9	12.9	12.6	13.6	11.4	10.3	10.1
Republic of Korea
Samoa	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Singapore
Solomon Islands	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Sri Lanka	3.2	2.9	2.3	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.4
Thailand	11.0	7.8	6.7	5.0	5.4	5.5	5.7
Timor-Leste	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Viet Nam	15.9	13.0	9.7	7.5	6.8	6.5	6.5

Source: FAO.

TABLE 15.

Prevalence of food insecurity (percent)

	Moderate or severe food insecurity				Severe food insecurity
	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	23.0	24.8	25.8	27.6	8.2	8.9	9.5	10.5
Asia and the Pacific	18.5	20.1	21.4	23.4	7.2	7.5	8.3	9.3
Eastern Asia	6.1	8.6	9.0	8.3	1.0	1.7	1.6	1.7
East Asia (excluding China)	3.9	4.6	4.6	4.6	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.8
Oceania	11.1	13.2	13.7	12.9	2.8	3.7	3.9	3.4
South-eastern Asia	15.9	17.4	17.3	17.6	2.4	2.7	2.7	2.8
Southern Asia	30.9	31.4	33.9	38.7	14.6	14.4	16.2	18.4
South Asia (excluding India)	38.6	36.9	38.0	39.8	12.4	11.7	12.3	13.4
Afghanistan	45.1	54.3	57.5	63.1	14.8	17.3	17.3	19.8
American Samoa
Australia	10.8	12.7	13.3	12.3	2.8	3.6	3.8	3.3
Bangladesh	32.2	31.5	31.5	31.9	13.3	11.6	10.6	10.5
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia	48.9	44.9	44.1	44.8	16.9	14.0	13.6	13.4
China
Cook Islands
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Fiji			14.3	14.3			2.0	2.0
French Polynesia
India
Indonesia	6.0	7.6	7.0	6.2	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.7
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	48.0	42.4	40.6	42.5	9.5	8.7	8.4	8.7
Japan	2.6	3.2	3.2	3.4	<0.5	0.5	0.7	0.7
Kiribati			40.9	40.9			8.0	7.9
Lao People’s Democratic Republic				29.4				8.9
Malaysia	17.4	15.1	15.1	18.7	7.8	6.7	6.7	7.5
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Mongolia	21.0	27.1	27.5	26.2	3.4	5.9	5.9	4.9
Myanmar				22.2				1.9
Nauru
Nepal	29.5	31.6	33.8	36.4	10.4	9.6	10.3	12.0
New Zealand	10.0	13.3	13.9	14.0	2.8	4.2	4.4	3.9
Niue
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines	41.2		41.2	42.7	3.2		3.2	4.0
Republic of Korea	4.8	5.4	5.2	5.1	<0.5	0.5	<0.5	0.6
Samoa		23.6	23.6	23.6		3.4	3.4	3.4
Singapore	2.8	4.1	4.7	4.5	1.0	1.4	1.4	0.9
Solomon Islands
Sri Lanka
Thailand	15.1	24.8	26.4	29.8	4.2	7.2	7.7	8.5
Timor-Leste
Tonga			23.2	23.2			6.0	6.0
Tuvalu
Vanuatu			23.3	23.3			2.4	2.4
Viet Nam		6.2	6.2	6.5		<0.5	<0.5	0.5

Source: FAO.

TABLE 16.

Number of food insecure people (millions)

	Moderately or severely food insecure				Severely food insecure
	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020	2014–2016	2016–2018	2017–2019	2018–2020
World	1696.1	1874.4	1970.1	2132.3	607.7	669.4	722.7	813.0
Asia and the Pacific	768.8	849.8	912.1	1002.9	299.9	317.4	352.5	401.2
Eastern Asia	99.7	143.3	150.1	138.3	16.8	28.1	27.1	28.9
East Asia (excluding China)	9.3	11.0	11.0	11.0	1.2	1.7	1.8	1.9
Oceania	4.4	5.4	5.7	5.4	1.1	1.5	1.6	1.4
South-eastern Asia	100.7	112.7	113.4	116.7	15.0	17.2	17.5	18.7
Southern Asia	564.0	588.5	643.1	742.6	267.0	270.6	306.3	352.2
South Asia (excluding India)	199.6	197.3	206.3	219.5	64.2	62.5	67.0	73.9
Afghanistan	15.5	19.7	21.4	24.0	5.1	6.3	6.4	7.5
American Samoa
Australia	2.6	3.1	3.3	3.1	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.8
Bangladesh	50.4	50.2	50.8	52.0	20.7	18.5	17.2	17.1
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia	7.6	7.2	7.2	7.4	2.6	2.2	2.2	2.2
China
Cook Islands
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Fiji			0.1	0.1			<0.1	<0.1
French Polynesia
India
Indonesia	15.5	20.0	18.7	16.8	1.8	2.4	2.2	1.9
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	37.7	34.2	33.2	35.2	7.5	7.0	6.9	7.2
Japan	3.3	4.0	4.0	4.3	0.5	0.7	0.9	0.8
Kiribati			<0.1	<0.1			<0.1	<0.1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic				2.1				0.6
Malaysia	5.3	4.7	4.7	6.0	2.4	2.1	2.1	2.4
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Mongolia	0.6	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Myanmar				12.0				1.0
Nauru
Nepal	8.0	8.7	9.5	10.4	2.8	2.6	2.9	3.4
New Zealand	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Niue
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines	42.1		44.0	46.1	3.3		3.4	4.3
Republic of Korea	2.4	2.7	2.6	2.6	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3
Samoa		<0.1	<0.1	<0.1		<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Singapore	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	<0.1
Solomon Islands
Sri Lanka
Thailand	10.4	17.2	18.3	20.8	2.9	5.0	5.4	5.9
Timor-Leste
Tonga			<0.1	<0.1			<0.1	<0.1
Tuvalu
Vanuatu			<0.1	<0.1			<0.1	<0.1
Viet Nam		5.9	6.0	6.2		0.4	0.4	0.5

Source: FAO.

TABLE 17.

Prevalence of stunting among children under five (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018	2019	2020
World	33.1	30.7	27.7	24.4	22.9	22.4	22.0
Asia and the Pacific	38.0	34.9	31.3	26.5	24.2	23.5	22.9
Eastern Asia	19.5	13.0	8.8	6.3	5.4	5.2	4.9
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand	35.6	37.8	40.0	40.4	41.0	41.2	41.4
South-eastern Asia	38.0	34.4	31.6	29.1	28.1	27.8	27.4
Southern Asia	48.3	46.2	42.6	36.5	32.9	31.7	30.7
Afghanistan	54.6	52.2	47.2	41.1	37.4	36.3	35.1
Australia	1.3	1.6	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1
Bangladesh	56.0	47.1	40.2	35.0	32.0	31.0	30.2
Bhutan	46.5	40.3	33.0	26.4	23.7	23.0	22.4
Brunei Darussalam	20.9	20.5	18.4	15.7	13.7	13.2	12.7
Cambodia	51.1	44.8	37.5	31.3	30.2	30.0	29.9
China, mainland	20.1	13.0	8.7	6.1	5.2	4.9	4.7
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	54.4	40.4	29.0	22.6	19.8	18.9	18.2
Fiji	5.9	7.8	8.5	8.0	7.5	7.5	7.5
India	49.8	48.2	44.5	37.5	33.5	32.1	30.9
Indonesia	41.5	38.3	35.7	32.9	32.2	32.0	31.8
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	14.5	8.4	6.3	6.2	6.2	6.3	6.3
Japan	8.4	7.6	6.9	6.1	5.7	5.6	5.5
Kiribati	20.4	18.1	16.3	15.6	15.5	15.3	14.9
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	49.7	47.6	43.2	36.5	32.4	31.2	30.2
Malaysia	20.0	18.3	17.9	19.1	20.3	20.6	20.9
Maldives	33.6	24.9	18.3	16.2	15.1	14.6	14.2
Marshall Islands	38.2	35.7	37.6	35.0	33.5	32.8	32.2
Mongolia	29.4	23.3	15.2	10.1	8.1	7.6	7.1
Myanmar	47.0	39.1	33.2	29.5	26.9	26.1	25.2
Nauru	26.8	25.3	21.6	18.2	16.3	15.5	15.0
Nepal	57.9	49.5	42.8	36.4	32.5	31.4	30.4
Pakistan	42.1	43.8	44.2	41.3	38.5	37.5	36.7
Papua New Guinea	41.9	44.0	46.6	47.5	48.1	48.3	48.4
Philippines	35.7	34.0	32.7	31.1	29.9	29.4	28.7
Republic of Korea	2.9	2.6	2.3	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.2
Samoa	6.1	5.4	5.6	5.8	6.4	6.6	6.8
Singapore	4.4	3.9	3.3	3.0	2.9	2.9	2.8
Solomon Islands	34.0	34.2	33.0	30.5	29.7	29.5	29.3
Sri Lanka	20.6	18.3	17.2	16.3	16.2	16.1	16.0
Thailand	16.9	16.4	14.9	12.9	12.6	12.4	12.3
Timor-Leste	54.8	57.1	54.4	50.9	49.5	49.1	48.8
Tonga	12.9	10.2	7.8	4.9	3.3	3.0	2.6
Tuvalu	12.1	10.5	10.1	9.9	9.8	9.8	9.7
Vanuatu	25.1	26.3	27.0	27.9	28.5	28.6	28.7
Viet Nam	41.8	32.9	27.6	24.4	23.0	22.7	22.3

Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank.

TABLE 18.

Prevalence of wasting among children under five (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018	2019	2020
World							6.7
Asia and the Pacific							9.9
Eastern Asia							1.7
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand							9.0
South-eastern Asia							8.2
Southern Asia							14.1
Afghanistan					5.1
Bangladesh	12.5	11.8			8.4	9.8
Bhutan			5.9
Cambodia	17.1	8.5	11.0
China, mainland	2.5	2.9	2.3
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	12.2
India				20.8
Indonesia	5.5		12.3		10.2
Iran (Islamic Republic of)			4.0
Japan			2.3
Kiribati					3.5
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	17.5			9.7
Malaysia				8.0		9.7
Mongolia	7.1	2.7	1.8		0.9
Myanmar	10.7				6.7
Nepal						12.0
Pakistan					7.1
Papua New Guinea		4.4	14.1
Philippines				6.8	5.6
Samoa						3.1
Singapore	3.6
Solomon Islands				8.5
Sri Lanka	15.9
Thailand						7.7
Tonga						1.1
Viet Nam	6.1	10.7	4.1	6.4

Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank.

TABLE 19.

Prevalence of overweight among children under five (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018	2019	2020
World	5.4	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.7
Asia and the Pacific	4.2	4.3	4.5	4.7	4.9	4.9	5.0
Eastern Asia	6.0	6.2	6.6	7.1	7.5	7.7	7.9
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand	5.2	6.1	7.0	7.7	8.0	8.0	8.0
South-eastern Asia	3.7	4.3	5.3	6.6	7.2	7.4	7.5
Southern Asia	3.3	3.3	3.0	2.8	2.6	2.6	2.5
Afghanistan	5.2	5.8	5.6	4.8	4.3	4.1	3.9
Australia	8.2	10.3	13.0	16.1	17.7	18.2	18.5
Bangladesh	0.7	1.0	1.5	1.9	2.1	2.1	2.1
Bhutan	4.3	5.4	6.0	5.9	5.5	5.4	5.2
Brunei Darussalam	6.2	7.1	8.1	8.9	9.1	9.2	9.3
Cambodia	3.2	2.7	2.3	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.1
China, mainland	6.4	6.6	7.0	7.5	7.9	8.1	8.3
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.5	1.7	1.8	1.9
Fiji	3.8	4.3	4.7	5.0	5.1	5.2	5.2
India	3.3	3.0	2.6	2.1	2.0	1.9	1.9
Indonesia	4.0	5.3	7.2	9.5	10.7	10.9	11.1
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	6.8	7.4	8.2	8.7	9.1	9.2	9.4
Japan	2.1	1.9	1.9	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.4
Kiribati	2.6	2.5	2.4	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.4
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	2.1	2.1	2.2	2.5	2.8	2.9	3.0
Malaysia	5.4	5.8	6.0	6.1	6.1	6.1	6.1
Maldives	4.4	5.5	5.9	5.5	5.0	4.8	4.6
Marshall Islands	3.8	3.9	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.2
Mongolia	8.5	9.5	10.1	10.2	10.3	10.2	10.1
Myanmar	4.5	3.5	2.6	1.9	1.6	1.6	1.5
Nauru	3.0	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.5	3.6	3.7
Nepal	0.9	1.0	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.7	1.8
Pakistan	4.8	5.1	4.9	4.2	3.7	3.6	3.4
Papua New Guinea	5.5	6.6	7.7	8.6	8.9	8.9	8.9
Philippines	2.4	2.7	3.1	3.7	4.0	4.1	4.2
Republic of Korea	5.8	6.6	7.4	8.2	8.6	8.7	8.8
Samoa	5.8	6.2	6.6	6.8	7.0	7.0	7.1
Singapore	3.0	3.2	3.8	4.3	4.6	4.7	4.8
Solomon Islands	2.9	3.1	3.4	3.7	3.8	3.9	4.0
Sri Lanka	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.3
Thailand	6.4	7.5	8.4	9.0	9.2	9.2	9.2
Timor-Leste	3.6	3.4	3.1	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.6
Tonga	10.4	12.1	13.0	13.1	12.9	12.8	12.6
Tuvalu	5.4	5.8	6.1	6.3	6.3	6.4	6.4
Vanuatu	4.3	4.6	4.8	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.9
Viet Nam	2.4	2.9	3.7	4.9	5.6	5.8	6.0

Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank.

TABLE 20.

Prevalence of anaemia among women of reproductive age (15–49 years) (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	2018	2019
World	31.2	29.9	28.6	28.8	29.3	29.6	29.9
Asia and the Pacific	34.2	32.5	31.2	31.6	32.2	32.5	32.9
Eastern Asia	22.2	18.7	16.0	15.6	15.9	15.9	16.1
Oceania	14.6	14.3	14.2	14.8	15.3	15.6	16.0
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand	34.4	33.6	32.8	33.1	33.5	33.7	33.9
South-eastern Asia	31.4	27.9	25.3	25.6	26.3	26.7	27.2
Southern Asia	49.4	49.1	48.5	47.8	48.0	48.1	48.2
Afghanistan	35.7	35.6	36.8	39.4	40.9	41.8	42.6
Australia	8.0	7.5	7.3	7.6	7.9	8.2	8.5
Bangladesh	35.6	35.8	35.7	35.9	36.2	36.4	36.7
Bhutan	45.2	43.2	40.7	38.8	38.6	38.6	38.6
Brunei Darussalam	17.1	15.5	14.9	15.1	15.7	16.2	16.7
Cambodia	53.9	49.2	46.3	46.5	46.8	47.0	47.1
China	22.1	18.3	15.3	14.9	15.2	15.3	15.5
Cook Islands	26.9	26.1	25.7	26.2	26.6	26.8	27.1
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	35.0	32.5	31.6	32.5	33.2	33.5	33.9
Fiji	34.8	32.9	31.7	31.5	31.7	31.8	32.0
India	54.1	54.2	53.5	52.7	52.8	52.9	53.0
Indonesia	33.3	29.5	27.0	28.2	29.6	30.4	31.2
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	27.4	24.5	23.0	23.0	23.4	23.7	24.1
Japan	21.3	21.2	20.1	19.2	19.1	19.0	19.0
Kiribati	32.8	31.2	31.6	32.1	32.3	32.4	32.6
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	42.6	38.7	36.4	37.2	38.2	38.8	39.5
Malaysia	35.1	32.5	30.4	30.7	31.3	31.6	32.0
Maldives	48.0	44.8	44.5	48.3	50.3	51.3	52.2
Marshall Islands	31.0	30.3	29.7	29.9	30.2	30.4	30.6
Micronesia (Federated States of)	21.7	21.9	22.3	23.5	24.3	24.6	25.0
Mongolia	15.4	16.5	14.8	14.1	14.1	14.3	14.5
Myanmar	47.6	43.0	39.6	40.4	41.2	41.7	42.1
Nauru	30.0	30.0	29.5	29.4	29.5	29.5	29.6
Nepal	45.8	40.0	36.6	35.3	35.3	35.5	35.7
New Zealand	8.1	8.2	8.5	9.3	9.8	10.1	10.4
Niue	26.9	26.2	25.8	26.4	26.8	27.0	27.3
Pakistan	40.6	41.8	42.6	42.0	41.6	41.4	41.3
Palau	28.1	27.5	27.2	27.7	28.1	28.3	28.5
Papua New Guinea	34.7	34.1	33.3	33.6	34.0	34.2	34.4
Philippines	25.0	22.2	18.7	14.5	13.3	12.8	12.3
Republic of Korea	17.5	16.0	14.3	13.1	13.1	13.2	13.5
Samoa	24.7	24.7	24.5	25.1	25.9	26.3	26.8
Singapore	12.3	11.7	11.4	11.9	12.4	12.7	13.0
Solomon Islands	41.0	40.2	38.8	38.0	37.9	37.8	37.7
Sri Lanka	38.8	36.0	33.8	33.8	34.1	34.4	34.6
Thailand	21.0	21.3	21.8	22.7	23.3	23.7	24.0
Timor-Leste	36.9	30.7	26.9	27.7	28.8	29.3	29.9
Tonga	28.0	27.5	27.2	27.6	28.0	28.2	28.5
Tuvalu	26.9	26.2	25.8	26.5	27.0	27.2	27.5
Vanuatu	30.9	27.3	24.2	25.2	26.7	27.5	28.5
Viet Nam	27.3	20.9	17.2	18.0	19.1	19.8	20.6

Source: WHO.

TABLE 21.

Prevalence of obesity among adults (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2013	2014	2015	2016
World	8.7	9.9	11.2	12.1	12.5	12.8	13.1
Asia and the Pacific	2.6	3.4	4.5	5.2	5.5	5.8	6.1
Eastern Asia	2.4	3.2	4.3	5.1	5.4	5.7	6.0
Oceania	19.5	22.1	24.7	26.4	27.0	27.5	28.1
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand	15.6	17.8	20.2	21.9	22.4	23.0	23.6
South-eastern Asia	2.7	3.6	4.8	5.7	6.0	6.4	6.7
Southern Asia	2.5	3.2	4.1	4.7	4.9	5.2	5.4
Afghanistan	2.3	3.0	4.0	4.7	4.9	5.2	5.5
Australia	20.2	22.9	25.6	27.3	27.9	28.4	29.0
Bangladesh	1.3	1.8	2.5	3.0	3.2	3.4	3.6
Bhutan	2.4	3.4	4.6	5.5	5.7	6.1	6.4
Brunei Darussalam	7.2	9.0	11.1	12.6	13.1	13.6	14.1
Cambodia	1.5	2.0	2.7	3.3	3.5	3.7	3.9
China	2.4	3.2	4.4	5.2	5.5	5.9	6.2
Cook Islands	44.9	49.1	52.6	54.3	54.9	55.4	55.9
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	4.0	4.7	5.5	6.1	6.3	6.5	6.8
Fiji	21.0	23.7	26.5	28.3	28.9	29.5	30.2
India	1.6	2.1	2.8	3.3	3.5	3.7	3.9
Indonesia	2.6	3.6	4.9	5.8	6.1	6.5	6.9
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	16.6	19.1	22.1	24.0	24.6	25.2	25.8
Japan	2.1	2.6	3.3	3.8	3.9	4.1	4.3
Kiribati	34.9	38.9	42.2	44.1	44.7	45.3	46.0
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	1.7	2.5	3.5	4.4	4.7	5.0	5.3
Malaysia	7.0	9.4	12.0	13.7	14.3	14.9	15.6
Maldives	3.0	4.2	5.9	7.2	7.6	8.1	8.6
Marshall Islands	43.7	46.7	49.6	51.3	51.8	52.4	52.9
Micronesia (Federated States of)	34.7	37.9	41.5	43.7	44.4	45.1	45.8
Mongolia	11.6	13.8	16.7	18.6	19.2	19.9	20.6
Myanmar	2.2	3.0	4.0	4.8	5.1	5.4	5.8
Nauru	55.1	57.0	58.9	60.0	60.3	60.7	61.0
Nepal	1.6	2.1	2.9	3.5	3.7	3.9	4.1
New Zealand	21.5	24.4	27.2	29.0	29.6	30.2	30.8
Niue	37.5	41.3	45.2	47.6	48.4	49.2	50.0
Pakistan	3.9	5.1	6.5	7.5	7.8	8.2	8.6
Palau	45.0	48.2	51.8	53.7	54.2	54.8	55.3
Papua New Guinea	13.3	15.5	17.9	19.6	20.1	20.7	21.3
Philippines	3.3	4.1	5.0	5.7	5.9	6.2	6.4
Republic of Korea	2.9	3.4	3.9	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.7
Samoa	36.7	40.2	43.4	45.4	46.0	46.7	47.3
Singapore	4.4	4.9	5.4	5.7	5.8	6.0	6.1
Solomon Islands	13.5	15.9	18.7	20.6	21.2	21.9	22.5
Sri Lanka	2.1	2.8	3.7	4.4	4.6	4.9	5.2
Thailand	3.7	5.0	7.0	8.4	8.9	9.4	10.0
Timor-Leste	1.4	1.9	2.6	3.1	3.3	3.6	3.8
Tonga	37.0	40.6	44.1	46.1	46.8	47.5	48.2
Tuvalu	39.3	43.1	47.0	49.4	50.1	50.9	51.6
Vanuatu	15.6	18.4	21.3	23.2	23.9	24.5	25.2
Viet Nam	0.6	0.9	1.4	1.7	1.8	2.0	2.1

Source: WHO.

TABLE 22.

Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding among infants 0–5 months of age (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	2018	2019
World							44.0
Asia and the Pacific							46.0
Eastern Asia							22.0
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand							61.3
South-eastern Asia							47.9
Southern Asia							57.2
Afghanistan				43.1		57.5
Bangladesh						65.0
Bhutan			48.7	53.2
Cambodia	10.8	60.0	72.8
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea					71.4
India		46.4		54.9		58.0
Indonesia					50.7
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	44.1		53.1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	18.8				44.4
Marshall Islands					43.1
Mongolia	47.8	56.7	65.7			50.2
Myanmar	10.5			51.2
Pakistan						47.5
Papua New Guinea						59.7
Solomon Islands				76.2
Sri Lanka	52.6
Thailand		5.4		23.0
Viet Nam	22.0		17.0

Source: UNICEF.

TABLE 23.

Prevalence of low birthweight (percent)

	2000	2005	2010	2012	2013	2014	2015
World	17.5	16.4	15.3	15.0	14.8	14.7	14.6
Asia and the Pacific	27.0	25.0	23.4	22.8	22.5	22.3	22.1
Eastern Asia	5.8	5.4	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.1
Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand	10.4	10.2	10.1	10.0	9.9	9.9	9.9
South-eastern Asia	13.7	13.0	12.5	12.4	12.4	12.3	12.3
Southern Asia	32.3	29.9	27.9	27.2	26.9	26.6	26.4
Australia	6.3	6.3	6.2	6.3	6.3	6.4	6.5
Bangladesh	36.2	32.7	30.0	29.0	28.6	28.2	27.8
Bhutan	13.8	12.9	12.2	11.9	11.8	11.8	11.7
Brunei Darussalam	10.3	9.5	11.8	12.1	12.0	11.5	10.8
Cambodia	15.4	13.8	12.9	12.6	12.4	12.2	12.1
China	5.8	5.4	5.1	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
Cook Islands	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5
Indonesia	11.2	10.7	10.3	10.2	10.1	10.0	10.0
Japan	8.6	9.5	9.6	9.6	9.5	9.5	9.5
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	20.4	19.1	18.1	17.7	17.6	17.4	17.3
Malaysia	10.0	10.2	11.1	11.3	11.4	11.4	11.3
Maldives	15.6	13.4	12.3	12.0	11.9	11.8	11.7
Mongolia	6.3	5.9	5.6	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.4
Myanmar	13.9	13.2	12.7	12.5	12.5	12.4	12.3
Nepal	27.2	25.0	23.2	22.6	22.3	22.1	21.8
New Zealand	6.6	6.0	5.9	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.7
Philippines	21.5	21.0	20.6	20.4	20.3	20.2	20.1
Republic of Korea	3.8	4.3	5.1	5.4	5.5	5.7	5.8
Singapore	9.8	9.7	9.7	9.7	9.6	9.6	9.6
Sri Lanka	16.3	17.3	17.0	16.6	16.4	16.1	15.9
Thailand	13.5	11.4	10.8	10.8	10.7	10.6	10.5
Vanuatu	11.1	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	10.9	10.9
Viet Nam	9.2	8.6	8.5	8.4	8.3	8.3	8.2

Source: UNICEF and WHO.