Abstract
The study investigates the determinants of the nutritional status of mothers in developing countries. For a panel of 38 developing countries, data were obtained from the nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Married women of reproductive age group (15 to 45 years), currently living with their husbands were selected as the target population. Body mass index was used as a proxy measure to gauge the nutritional status. Both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were employed to assess the socioeconomic determinants of mothers' nutritional status. The findings from both descriptive and probability analyses identified the mothers' poor educational status, early marriage, high fertility rate, low birth interval, low women empowerment status, household poverty, and belonging to rural areas as the main determinants of poor nutritional status of mothers in developing countries; hence, there is a need to focus more on this group in order to stop the sustained transmission of intergenerational malnutrition.
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