Stop! Read and ponder over these statistics as you digest your meal. According to the 2013 Liberia Demographic Health Survey Report, 33 percent of women in Liberia and 29 percent of men reported that they had never attended school. Thirty-one percent of women and 29 percent of men have attended primary school without continuing to secondary school and fifty-eight percent of men and thirty-six percent of women have attended secondary school or a higher level of reducation. The survey reports that due to poor nutrition 32 percent of Liberian children under the age of five are stunted. Stunting increases with age, peaking at 42 percent of children 36-47 months in age. Results show a higher proportion of males ( 34 percent) than females (29 percent) are stunted. Stunting is lower in Greater Monrovia ( 27 percent) than in other urban or rural areas ( 33 percent, each ). Severe stunting ( below- 3 SD ) decreases as mothers education increases from a high of 14 percent among children of mothers with no education to a low of 9 percent among children of mothers with more than secondary education. Bon Appetit!
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:29:28 +0000
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