Estimated mean GWG (kg) | |
Sub‐Saharan Africa | 6.6 (3.4, 9.9) |
Central Sub-Saharan Africa | 5.3 (1.3, 9.4) |
Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa | 6.2 (2.9, 9.5) |
Southern Sub-Saharan Africa | 8.6 (1.8, 15.4) |
Western Sub-Saharan Africa | 7.2 (3.2, 11.2) |
Latin America and Caribbean | 11.8 (6.2, 17.4) |
Andean Latin America | 10.2 (5.6, 14.9) |
Caribbean | 11.3 (5.5, 17.2) |
Central Latin America | 11.1 (7.0, 15.1) |
Tropical Latin America | 13.2 (2.3, 24.1) |
Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania | 8.8 (4.7, 12.9) |
East Asia | 9.1 (4.8, 13.5) |
Southeast Asia | 8.4 (4.6, 12.3) |
Oceania | 7.7 (3.0, 12.5) |
Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia | 11.2 (6.2, 16.2) |
Central Asia | 9.9 (3.9, 15.9) |
Central Europe | 12.0 (6.8, 17.2) |
Eastern Europe | 12.1 (6.9, 17.4) |
South Asia | 7.4 (3.4, 11.4) |
North Africa and Middle East | 6.8 (3.2, 10.4) |
*Values are the estimated mean gestational weight gain (GWG) in 2015, with uncertainty ranges in parentheses. Country-level SEs of the point estimates from the Demographic and Health Surveys data were accounted for using a multiple imputation approach.