Vitamin D levels from lowest to highest: Middle East, China. India, S EU. N EU

Created December 2019

From: Vitamin D status in Africa is worse than in other continents

Lancet Glob Health. 2019 Nov 27. pii: S2214-109X(19)30492-9. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30492-9.

Bouillon R1. 📄 Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life

Following table includes information from the table in the PDF

Report Location <10 or 12 ng <20 ng
Arabi et al (2010) 9 Iran and Jordan 50%✻ ✻ 90%✻ ✻
Zhang et al (2013) 5 China ~ 37% ~ 72%
Web 2018 India - 56%
Cashman et al (2016) 8 EU countries (adults) 13% 40%
Mogire et al (2019) 6 African continent 18% 34%
Hilger et al (2014) 2 Global 7%✻ 37%✻
Herrick et al (2019) 7 USA 5% 18%

    ✻ % deficient globally is probably higher. - Appears that the population size was ignored - see reference #2 below

    ✻ ✻ Middle East: has dark skin and air conditioning - staying out ot extreme summer heat ==> colds in the sunner

It appears that Asia has far lower average vitamin D levels than Africa ( as well 3.7X more population)

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1. Some groups in Europe believe that Vitamin D levels as low as 20 ng are OK1. Varous groups around the world believe that vitamin D levels should be much higher:* 30 ng, 40 ng or perhaps 50 ng see Vitamin D Life Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough* * Deficiency of Vitamin D: category listing has items along with related searches** * Extreme Vitamin D deficiency in most low middle income countries which had studies – Jan 2018* < 10 ng: Mongolia, * Vitamin D level: 27 ng if low pollution, 12 ng if high pollution (Delhi children) – June 2018* Vitamin D levels are lower than 20 ng in half of the world – Dec 2017* Vitamin D deficiency is a major global public health problem – Maps Nov 2013* Vitamin D is low in Europe – 40 percent have less than 20 ng – ODEN Oct 2018* Most Chinese have less than 20 ng level of Vitamin D - meta-analysis Aug 2021 1. Vitamin D Levels continue going down in most places* Prediction: Vitamin D levels will continue dropping for decades* Vitamin D levels have been crashing since 1995 (Polish Children, Elite Military, etc)* Vitamin D levels are dropping rapidly – what you need to do* There are a great many reasons for the decreasing vitamin D levels - such as* getting less vitamin D from the sun * getting less vitamin D from food* getting less Magnesium needed to get and use Vitamin D* image* Vitamin D levels have been crashing image * Click on chart for details* Vitamin D levels continue to fall in Korea– June 2018* image--- 1. Overview Deficiency of vitamin D has the followingimage* Vitamin D levels around the world - DSM review June 2014 which has the followingimageimage--- 1. # In addition: Some groups are at higher risk of having low vitamin D* Obese  Seniors  Dark Skin Pregnant  Shut-in  Recent Trauma or surgery

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References (most of which are in Vitamin D Life)

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