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Table 1 Contribution of each Arab country to published obesity documents

From: Quantity and quality of obesity-related research in Arab countries: assessment and comparative analysis

Country

Number of documents

Number of published documents per million inhabitants

n(%) = 1,121 (%)a

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

318 (28.37)

11.24

Egypt

193 (17.22)

2.39

Kuwait

132 (11.87)

40.62

Tunisia

109 (9.72)

10.11

United Arab Emirates

95 (8.48)

10.32

Lebanon

73 (6.51)

16.50

Jordan

61 (5.44)

9.65

Morocco

49 (4.37)

1.51

Bahrain

45 (4.01)

34.14

Qatar

43 (3.84)

20.97

Oman

36 (3.21)

10.86

Algeria

23 (2.05)

0.60

Libya

14 (1.25)

2.27

Iraq

13 (1.16)

0.40

Sudan

10 (0.89)

0.27

Yemen

7 (0.62)

0.29

Syria

5 (0.45)

0.22

Somalia

0

0

Comoros

0

0

Djibouti

0

0

Mauritania

0

0

  1. aTotal exceeds 100% because of overlap in some documents among more than one Arab country.