Table 5 Projected number and percentage of children (under 5 years) in West Africa expected to be malnourished due to climate change effects from 2010 and 2050 based on the IMPACT model
Scenario | 2010 | 2050 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No climate change | Average of max. and min. of 4 GCM–SRES scenarios | |||||
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
Baseline | 15,157 | 31.0 | 12,415 | 20.9 | 13,913 | 23.4 |
Optimistic | 14,733 | 30.2 | 7,615 | 15.1 | 8,949 | 17.1 |