FAO - Nutrition country profiles: Grenada
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Data on anthropometric measurements of children are limited in Grenada. Figures (clinic data) for undernutrition (weight for age) among children 0-5 years, in recent times, are only available for the years 1997 (4.3%) and 1998 (2.8%), and indicate a decrease over the period. Overweight (weight for age) decreased from 4.0% in 1990 to 1.0% in 1996 (CFNI, 2000). In a 1976 study carried out among children 0-5 years, 39.7% were found to be malnourished (weight-for-age) based on the "Gomez classificat ion". Of the total number of children measured 1.6% were severely malnourished, 9.0% were moderately malnourished, and 29.1% were mildly malnourished. The prevalence of malnutrition increased with age, while the majority of malnourished children were from the costal areas of Victoria and Gouyave (Table 4a). These limited bits of information seem to suggest that severe malnutrition, for a long time, has not been a major problem in Grenada. Fairly high levels of mild to moderate malnutrition exist ed in the 1970s, but no information was found to confirm whether this was still the case.