If the evolution of the economy continued according to the reference scenario, without any crisis, this rate would have been expected to ring in at 35.9% in 2008, 35.7% in 2009 and 2010, and 35.3% in 2011. This is the result of regions where the caloric poverty rate is above the national average but the monetary poverty rate is under the national average, as is the case in the Adamaoua, East and North West regions. This last region has a relatively low rate of caloric poverty (11.54%) even though it is among the five hardest hit regions in terms of monetary poverty among children (with a monetary poverty rate of 64.5%). Conversely, the South region has a caloric poverty rate above the national average, as opposed to the case for monetary poverty in that region.