Poverty statistics in the national household survey for 2002/2003
Population below the poverty line
56.7 per cent
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Nutrition
Per cent of infants with low birth weight (1999–2006)
9.2 per cent
Per cent of children under 6 months who are exclusively breast-fed
(2000–2006)
39.4 per cent
Per cent of children from 6 to 9 months who are breast-fed with
complementary food (2000–2006)
25.1 per cent
Per cent of children under 5 who are underweight (moderate and severe,
2000–2006)
Underweight
Moderate
Severe
13.8 per cent
11.3 per cent
2.5 per cent
Per cent of children under 5 whose growth is stunted (moderate and
severe, 2000–2006)
Stunted
Moderate
Severe
41.7 per cent
27.3 per cent
14.4 per cent
Vitamin A supplement full-coverage rate (6–59 months, 2005, after NID
campaign)
83 per cent (2007)
Households consuming iodised salt (2000–2006, after National
Immunisation Day, or NID, campaign)
98.79 per cent (2007)
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Population using improved drinking-water sources (2004, total)
50.9 per cent
Population using improved drinking-water sources (2002/2003, urban)
90.1 per cent
Population using improved drinking-water sources (2004, rural)
57.3 per cent
Population using adequate sanitation facilities (2004, total)
55.8 per cent
Population using adequate sanitation facilities (2004, urban)
92.3 per cent
Population using adequate sanitation facilities (2004, rural)
48 per cent
Routine Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) vaccines financed by
government (2006, total)
1 per cent