Assessing Vulnerability to Chronic Undernutrition among Under-Five Children in Egypt: Contextual Determinants of an Individual Consequence

Table 1

Average stunting (height-for-age) and wasting (weight-for-height) for countries in MENA region.

Country	Wasting (Weight-for-Height)		Stunting (height-for-age)		Year
	Below −2 SD	Below −3 SD	Below −2 SD	Below −3 SD
Algeria	9.6	5.1	23.3	10.8	2002
Bahrain	5.3	0.3	9.7	2.7	1995
Egypt	5.3	2.5	23.8	10.3	2005
Iran	4.9	0.9	15.4	3.8	1988
Iraq	6.6	2.4	28.3	9.4	2000
Jordan	2.5	0.8	12	2.6	2002
Kuwait	1.2	0.1	3.2	0.6	1996-97
Lebanon	1.2	0.6	2.8	0.4	1996
Libya	3.7	N/A	20.7	N/A	1995
Morocco	10.8	5	23.1	9.8	2003-04
Oman	7.3	1.1	12.9	2.4	1999
Qatar	5.5	N/A	8.1	N/A	1995
Saudi Arabia	11.8	4.5	9.3	2.6	2004-05
Sudan	17.8	7.2	47.6	27.7	2000
Syria	39	10.3	28.6	15.7	2006
Tunisia*	4.4	1	20.3	7.5	2000
Yemen	15.2	6.3	57.7	35.8	2003