| Countries ranked 1 to 4 according to progress against vitamin A deficiency. [view more about ranking] [return to text] | |||||||||
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| SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA | SOUTH ASIA | EAST ASIA & PACIFIC | LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN | |||||
| Botswana | 1 | Sudan | 2 | Bangladesh | 1 | Indonesia | 1 | Brazil | 1 |
| Cameroon | 1 | Egypt | 3 | India | 1 | Philippines | 1 | El Salvador | 1 |
| Malawi | 1 | Iran | 3 | Nepal | 1 | Thailand | 1 | Guatemala | 1 |
| Zambia | 1 | Iraq | 3 | Pakistan | 1 | Viet Nam | 1 | Mexico | 1 |
| Angola | 2 | Lebanon | 3 | Afghanistan | 2 | Cambodia | 2 | Nicaragua | 1 |
| Benin | 2 | Oman | 3 | Bhutan | 2 | Myanmar | 2 | Bolivia | 2 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | Syria | 3 | Sri Lanka | 2 | China | 3 | Haiti | 2 |
| Burundi | 2 | Turkey | 3 | Lao Rep. | 3 | Argentina | 3 | ||
| Ethiopia | 2 | Yemen | 3 | Papua New Guinea | 3 | Colombia | 3 | ||
| Liberia | 2 | Algeria | 4 | Mongolia | 4 | Cuba | 3 | ||
| Madagascar | 2 | Kuwait | 4 | Dominican Rep. | 3 | ||||
| Niger | 2 | Libya | 4 | Ecuador | 3 | ||||
| Rwanda | 2 | Morocco | 4 | Honduras | 3 | ||||
| Uganda | 2 | Paraguay | 3 | ||||||
| C. African Rep. | 3 | Peru | 3 | ||||||
| Chad | 3 | ||||||||
| Côte d'Ivoire | 3 | ||||||||
| Eritrea | 3 | ||||||||
| Ghana | 3 | ||||||||
| Guinea | 3 | ||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 3 | ||||||||
| Kenya | 3 | ||||||||
| Lesotho | 3 | ||||||||
| Mali | 3 | ||||||||
| Mauritania | 3 | ||||||||
| Mauritius | 3 | ||||||||
| Mozambique | 3 | ||||||||
| Namibia | 3 | ||||||||
| Nigeria | 3 | ||||||||
| Senegal | 3 | ||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 3 | ||||||||
| Somalia | 3 | ||||||||
| South Africa | 3 | ||||||||
| Tanzania | 3 | ||||||||
| Togo | 3 | ||||||||
| Zaire | 3 | ||||||||
| Congo | 4 | ||||||||
| Gabon | 4 | ||||||||
Not listed in these tables are those countries where survey information or food consumption data show that vitamin A deficiency does not exist as a public health problem.
Source: UNICEF field offices, February 1995.