Variables | Characteristics | Included studies | Number of study participants | Prevalence (95% CI) | I2(%), P-value |
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Region | Amhara | 5 | 2245 | 22.72 (16.66–28.78) | 98.3, < 0.001 |
Oromia | 6 | 2299 | 29.96 (17.98–41.93) | 99.6, < 0.001 | |
A. A | 1 | 1418 | 18.00 (16.32–19.63) | – | |
Tigray | 4 | 2291 | 24.11 (11.79–36.42) | 99.5, < 0.001 | |
Benishangul | 1 | 403 | 40.90 (38.75–43.05) | – | |
SNNP | 2 | 512 | 24.04 (15.71–32.37) | 97.5, < 0.001 | |
Sample size | ≤400 | 10 | 3285 | 25.58 (18.38–32.77) | 99.4, < 0.001 |
> 400 | 9 | ,5883 | 26.77 (19.60–33.94) | 99.3, < 0.001 | |
Year of publication | 2013–2015 | 11 | 5763 | 23.91 (19.43–28.40) | 98.5, < 0.001 |
2016–2018 | 2 | 639 | 20.84 (10.74–30.93) | 98.5, < 0.001 | |
2019–2020 | 6 | 2766 | 31.99 (18.31–45.67) | 99.7, < 0.001 | |
Overall |  | 19 | 9168 | 26.14 (21.20–31.08) | 99.3, < 0.001 |