Country Profiles Indicators (15 July 2014) Type of indicator

In country profiles

Presentation in Original Country Profiles Source (Text=no graphic, (web location and most recent data) key contacts will

Rationale

Considered but not reported (plus some comments)

be provided in separate table)

Demographics

• Total population

Number (Text)

UN Population Division

Together with nutrition status indicators, Indicates global contribution to malnutrition

• Total under 5 population

Number (text)

UN Population Division

Together with nutrition status indicators, indicates scale of under 5 child undernutrition problem

• % Population urban

% (Text)

UN Population Division

More urban populations tend to be more associated with NCDs & with lower stunting rates on average(Yusuf et al., 2001, WHO-UNICEF-The World Bank, 2012)

• % Population > 65

% (Text)

UN Population Division

Older populations have a greater burden of disease from NCDs(WHO, 2009, WHO, 2011)

• Under 5 mortality rate

Trend, straight line graphic 1990, 2000, 2010, 2012

UNICEF

A key consequence of undernutrition and an indicator that politicians pay attention to, so useful for advocacy(Katz et al., 2013)

Bar chart Charts that Caryn sent % (Text) % (Text) % (Text) % (Text)

WHO/UNICEF/ WB

World Health Assembly (WHA) Indicators (de Onis et al., 2010, de Onis et al., 2013)

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Anthropometry (17) On/Off Track Box for Stunting, Overweight, EBF, WRA Anemia

Children • Under 5 Stunting (P in last 5 surveys). (Plus the most recent Total), % AARR, On/off track according to WHA Target • Under 5 Stunting: Trends in inequality (from Caryn Bredenkamp) • Low Birth Weight (P) • Under 5 Wasting (P, Plus the most recent Total). • Under 5 Severe Wasting (P) • Under 5 Overweight (P, Total %AARR, On/off track according to WHA Target)

Wasting trends are not sufficiently accurate and difficult to interpret due to high within year variability, (P) only Severe wasting is an indicator of the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM)(WHO-UNICEF-The World Bank, 2012) Persistent inequalities in child undernutrition, strong evidence from 80 countries (Bredenkamp et al., 2014). Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight

% Of births registered. Foundational to child rights and increases likelihood of access to services. Important, but not considered specific enough to nutrition.

Underweight. MDG indicator but conflates stunting and wasting. Also not found linked to developmental consequences (Adair et al., 2013) Severe stunting. The hazard ratios for stunting and all under 5 deaths are raised from 2.3 to 5.5 when moving from -2 to -3 to