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Table 17 Prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight by region and rural/urban

From: Dynamics of inequality in child under-nutrition in Ethiopia

Groups

Stunting

Wasting

Underweight

Rural -urban

 Rural

3214 (30.90)

1007(9.68)

2479(23.83)

 Small town

183(22.56)

58 (7.15)

122(15.04)

Regions

 Tigray

351(35)

131(13.06)

326 (32.50)

 Amhara

624(33.91)

171 (9.29)

449 (24.40)

 Oromia

637(26.91)

181 (7.65)

458 (19.35)

 SNNP

1050(33.35)

231(7.34)

707(22.46)

 Other Regions

735(25.75)

351(12.30)

661(23.16)

  1. All values in parentheses are in percentage. Others includes samples from Afar, Somalie, Gambelia, Benshangul Gumuz, Harari and Diredwa which are all together nationally representative