Population, Economic, Tanzania, urbanization, Nutrition

Bader, Estelle

Kinabo, Joyce

Palma, Giulia

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1: Dietary energy supply (DES), trends and distribution by macronutrient

19 II.2 National food supply data Supply of major food groups Table 11: Trends in per capita supply of major foods groups (in g/per day) Supply for human consumption in g/day Major food groups

2: Vegetable/animal origin of energy, protein and lipid supplies 94

23 • Figure 4: Major food exports as percentage of Dietary Energy Supply (DES), trends Note that only the 3 most important food groups are shown.

47 TNFC.

5: Major food imports as percentage of Dietary Energy Supply (DES), trends Note that only the 3 most important food groups are shown.

According to “The State of Food Insecurity in the World”

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Coverage was low in Zanzibar. Children whose mother had had some formal education were more likely to have received vitamin A supplements (NBS and ORC Macro,

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II.5 Nutritional anthropometry Low birth weight It is estimated that in 2004 7% of weighed newborns had a low birth weight (less than 2500g) (NBS

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only 20% of the mothers had received vitamin A capsules within two months postpartum and significant differences were noted between urban (34%) and rural areas (16%) (NBS and ORC Macro,

Paradoxically Arusha is one of the regions with the highest proportion of households using adequately iodized salt (93% - data not presented here), while it is among regions with a high rate of goitre (10%)

period Source Gender related development index (GDI) 0.414 value between 0-1

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Table 12: Share of the main food groups in the Dietary Energy Supply (DES), trends % of DES Food groups

Table 14: Type of infant and young child feeding Type of feeding in the 24 hours preceding the survey Survey name/date (Reference) Indicator by age Sample size Percentage of children Exclusive breastfeeding rate 0-1

Table 19: Iodization of salt at household level Iodine level of household salt Survey name/date (Reference) Background characteristics Total number of households Percentage of households tested

Table 24: Percentage of mothers who took iron tablets/syrups during pregnancy Survey name/date (Reference) Background characteristics Number of mothers with a birth in the 5 years preceding the survey Percent who took iron tablets/syrups during pregnancy

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The median urinary iodine concentration was 203µg/L. About 25% of the children had urinary iodine concentration below 100µg/L (Table 18) (TFNC,

the prevalence of goitre is highest in the highlands and in the mountainous regions such as Iringa,

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there has been an improvement since

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Vitamin A supplementation As shown in Table 21, according to TDHS 2004-2005, slightly less than half of the children under five years of age had received vitamin A capsules in the 6 months preceding the survey (NBS and ORC Macro,

Zanzibar 144 54.1 II.7 Policies and programmes aiming to improve nutrition and food security International context and national economic policies with an impact on food security and nutrition

Nutrition Country Profile United Republic of Tanzania

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