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Email this page Printer friendly Last update: Jun 2008 Trends: UNICEF Vitamin A programme database Supplementation coverage (1999-2004) Download File Country 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Dose 1 Dose 2 Dose 1 Dose 2 Dose 1 Dose 2 Dose 1 Dose 2 Dose 1 Dose 2 Dose 1 Dose 2 Afghanistan 78 67 70 58 84 76 86a 85c 96 95 Angola 94c 100c 75 88 64 68c 77 77 Antigua and Barbuda Azerbaijan 14c Bangladesh 79 99 85e 92 90 90 84 87 91 83 89 Belize Benin 100 96c 95 85 98 95 94 89 Bhutan 87 93 93 Bolivia 85 68 73 35a 31 31 50 33 38 60 42 51 Botswana 85c 62 Burkina Faso 99c 93 20 97 61 97c 91 95 80 95 95 Burundi 92c 96c 95 89 95 94 Cambodia 79 55 63 30 57 57 34 57 47 70 72 75 Cameroon 100c 100 100c 86 86 21 81 Cape Verde Central African Republic 100 100c 2 90 3 84 79 66 Chad 92c 92 99d 93d 91c 88c 85 84 79 Colombia Comoros 6e 7c Congo 74 100 100 86 89 94 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 78 93 98 11 62 80 72 81c 70c Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire 16e 97c 60 Cuba Djibouti 91 75 Dominican Republic 53c 9a 35 9 31b 40 77 Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea 94 74 61 42 51 35 52c 50 Ethiopia 86 88 65c 16c 65 22 52c Gabon 100c 89 87c 30 Gambia 87c 91 93 91 52 27c Ghana 91 89 100 100 100 99c 99c 78b 95 95 50 Guatemala 33 18 49 Guinea 100c 99c 93 47 95 98 93 95 95 Guinea-Bissau 77c 91 100 80 64 34 Guyana Haiti 32a 25 Honduras 53c 60 40 62 42 61c 35 67 40c 83c India 15 22 25 27d 27d 45*d 45*d 51* 51* Indonesia 64e 71 68 61 57 82 63 62 68 73 73 Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya 80 90c 41 90 91c 33 63 46 Kiribati 80 61 57 45 45 58 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 100 99 96 100 99 99 99c 99c 95 95 95 95 Kyrgyzstan 95c Lao People's Democratic Republic 80 73 58 70 70 58 67 64 65 48 43 Lesotho 17a 75c 80c 71c Liberia 93c 83 84 100 100 40 95 Madagascar 94 58 38 73 47 95c 91 84 89 87 Malawi 54 63 86c 92 14 57 Malaysia Maldives 93 96 51 Mali 100c 70 10 74 41 68 24 61 72 97 67 Marshall Islands 67 83 83 51 32 23 33 24 26 Mauritania 83 81c 98 89 91 95 92 Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) 74 72 71 44 95 88 74 Mongolia 87 87 61 93 65 84 76 87 83 93 93 Morocco Mozambique 100 92 71 50b 26c Myanmar 42 67e 97 96 92 94 87 88 96 96 Namibia 83 81c 84c 96c 93 Nepal 85 90 82 73 98 96 83c 96 97 97 96 Nicaragua 63 91 98c Niger 100c 80 92 99 89 88 77c 81c 95 68 Nigeria 23a 79c 77 60 79 31 27 85 76 Occupied Palestinian Territory 16 Oman 97 91 95c Pakistan 88 95d 95d 100 100 95 95 95 95 95 95 Panama Papua New Guinea 1 32 Peru 5 1 6 2 6 Philippines 78 85 90 82 84 76 86 92 76b 86 85 89 Rwanda 93 75 59e 94 36c 86 8 95 93 Saint Vincent and Grenadines Sao Tome and Principe 3a 76 80 Senegal 87 93 94 85 83c 83 95 40 Sierra Leone 81 20 77 91 73 87 77 84 93 95 93 Somalia 63 15 100 45 62 50 60d 56d 6c South Africa 37c Sri Lanka 57 Sudan 79 31 99 15 92 88 93 94 34c 70 Swaziland 68c 80 86 Syrian Arab Republic 7 Tajikistan 98 96 Tanzania, United Republic of 21 55 45 22 93 81 94 90 91 93 94 93 Thailand The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Timor-Leste 35a 95 34 43 40 Togo 100c 100c 77c 7 95c 18 84 72 95 94 Turkmenistan Uganda 79 42 37 46 31 68 55 Uzbekistan 79c 93 93 86 80 Viet Nam 55 99 61 60 59 58 55 58 99 99 95* 95* Yemen 100 95 100c 49 36f 20 Zambia 75 86 71 83 75 80 73 95 50 72 Zimbabwe 78 46 20 20 Regional Summaries Sub-Saharan Africa 70 - 77 - 75 - 71 - 64 - 73 - Middle East and North Africa - - - - - - - - - - - - South Asia 35 - 42 - 46 - 46 - 58 - 62 - East Asia and Pacific 65 - 73 - 71 - 76 - 73 - 81 - Latin America and Caribbean - - - - - - - - - - - - CEE/CIS and Baltic States - - - - - - - - - - - - Industrialized countries - - - - - - - - - - - - Developing countries 50 - 56 - 59 - 59 - 61 - 68 - Least developed countries 80 - 78 - 78 - 70 - 76 - 75 - World 50 - 56 - 59 - 59 - 61 - 68 - Data source is UNICEF Nutrition Section Vitamin A Supplementation Coverage Reporting Form, unless otherwise indicated a. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey for given year b. Demographic and Health Survey for given year c. WHO/UNICEF EPI Joint Reporting Form d. Donor report e. CRING f. PAPFAM survey Labels of Dose 1 and Dose 2 may not reflect actual timing of distribution, but rather the Dose 1 figure was that selected for inclusion in The State of the World's Children; prior to 2002, it reflects the higher of two coverage data points; from 2002 onwards, this figure reflects coverage for the most recent distribution. Regional/global summaries have been calculated only for Dose 1

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