Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries

Ellen Van de Poel, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Niko Speybroeck, Tom Van Ourti, Jeanette Vega

Volume 86, Number 4, April 2008, 282-291

Table 1. Characteristics of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data sets

Country Year of survey Sample size Country Year of survey Sample size
Sub-Saharan Africa
 Eastern Mediterranean
Benin 2001 3 842 Armenia 2000 1 517
Burkina Faso 2003 8 142 Egypt 2000 10 296
Cameroon 2004 3 168 Kazakhstan 1999 566
Central African Republica 1994/1995 2 297 Kyrgyzstana 1997 971
Chad 2004 4 414 Morocco 2003/2004 5 356
Comorosa 1996 921 Turkey 1998 2 782
Côte d’Ivoire 1998/1999 1 477 Uzbekistan
 1996
 954
Ethiopia 2000 2 833 South and south-east Asia
Gabon 2000 3 482 Bangladesh 2004 5 911
Ghana 2003 3 094 Cambodia 2000 3 522
Guinea 1999 2 961 Indiaa 1998/1999 24 989
Kenya 2003 4 719 Nepal 2001 6 163
Madagascar 2003/2004 2 908 Pakistan
 1990/1991
 4 079
Malawi 2000 9 162 Latin America and the Caribbean
Mali 2001 9 382 Bolivia 2003 9 134
Mauritania 2000/2001 3 306 Brazil 1996 4 056
Mozambique 2003 3 808 Colombia 2005 12 393
Namibia 2000 2 925 Dominican Republic 2002 9 288
Nigera 1998 3 914 Guatemala 1998/1999 3 879
Nigeria 2003 4 293 Haiti 2000 5 510
Rwanda 2000 6 038 Nicaragua 2001 5 875
Togoa 1998 3 443 Paraguay 1990 3 614
Uganda 2000/2001 5 145 Peru 2000 11 585
United Republic of Tanzania 2004 7 132
Zambia 2001/2002 1 932
Zimbabwe 1999 2 632

a Births in the 3 years preceding the survey instead of the usual 5 years.