Arab Region | Prevalence of underweight, weight for age, percentage of children under 5, female (Arab countries,1990–2022)

Prevalence of underweight, female, is the percentage of girls under age 5 whose weight for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. The data are based on the WHO's new child growth standards released in 2006.
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Arab Region | Prevalence of underweight, weight for age, percentage of children under 5, female (Arab countries,1990–2022)
2013 Djibouti 28.1
2000 Iraq 11.8
2006 Iraq 6.6
2011 Iraq 6.6
2018 Iraq 4
2000 Mauritania 27.8
2007 Mauritania 24.4
2008 Mauritania 14.5
2011 Mauritania 22.9
2012 Mauritania 17.8
2015 Mauritania 22.7
2018 Mauritania 17.1
2019 Mauritania 15.1
2020 Mauritania 16
2021 Mauritania 12.5
2022 Mauritania 19.8
1993 Syria 10.4
2001 Syria 9.8
2006 Syria 8.3
2010 Syria 8.9
2006 Tunisia 2.9
2012 Tunisia 1.4
2018 Tunisia 1.3
1991 Yemen 28
1997 Yemen 41
2003 Yemen 43.5
2005 Yemen 33.6
2011 Yemen 33.7
2013 Yemen 39
1992 Algeria 8.6
1995 Algeria 10.4
2000 Algeria 5.6
2002 Algeria 9.6
2006 Algeria 3.4
2012 Algeria 3
2019 Algeria 2.4
1995 Libya 3.8
2007 Libya 4.8
2014 Libya 10.5
1996 Palestine 2.4
2000 Palestine 2.4
2004 Palestine 3
2006 Palestine 2.6
2010 Palestine 3.5
2014 Palestine 1.1
2020 Palestine 1.6
2006 Somalia 31.2
2009 Somalia 20.7
2006 Sudan 25.9
2010 Sudan 28.5
2014 Sudan 31.5
1991 Egypt 9
1992 Egypt 7.9
1995 Egypt 9.8
2003 Egypt 7
2005 Egypt 4.2
2008 Egypt 5.4
2014 Egypt 6.2
1992 Morocco 7.7
1997 Morocco 7.2
2003 Morocco 9.2
2011 Morocco 3.2
2017 Morocco 2.5
1999 Oman 12.2
2009 Oman 8.3
2014 Oman 8.4
2017 Oman 11.4
2000 Comoros 21.9
2012 Comoros 16.6
1990 Jordan 4.4
1997 Jordan 3.8
2002 Jordan 3.3
2009 Jordan 2.1
2012 Jordan 2.6
2019 Jordan 2.6
2004 Lebanon 2.8
2021 Lebanon 2.8
2001 Kuwait 1.9
2002 Kuwait 1.5
2003 Kuwait 1.9
2004 Kuwait 2.7
2005 Kuwait 2.4
2006 Kuwait 3.4
2007 Kuwait 2.7
2008 Kuwait 1.8
2009 Kuwait 1.5
2010 Kuwait 1.5
2011 Kuwait 1.8
2012 Kuwait 2.3
2013 Kuwait 3
2014 Kuwait 2.6
2015 Kuwait 3.3
2016 Kuwait 2.7
2017 Kuwait 2.6
2018 Kuwait 3.1
2019 Kuwait 2
2020 Kuwait 2.1
2004 Saudi Arabia 4.5

Arab Region | Prevalence of underweight, weight for age, percentage of children under 5, female (Arab countries,1990–2022)

Prevalence of underweight, female, is the percentage of girls under age 5 whose weight for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. The data are based on the WHO's new child growth standards released in 2006.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
98
Source