Prevalence of Calorie Deficient Diets in Developing Countries

摘要

This paper reports further research on the measurement of the extent of malnutrition in developing countries. The authors utilized readily available per capita calorie consumption and income distribution data to deduce personal calorie distributions for selected countries. The major new feature of the estimates is that inter-personal variations of calorie intakes and requirements within each income group are taken into account in a probabilistic way to predict the number of people with calorie deficient diets.