Low & middle income | Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of underweight children is the percentage of children 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 2006 Child Growth Standards. Limitations and exceptions: Survey estimates come with levels of uncertainty due to both sampling error and non-sampling error (e.g., measurement technical error, recording error etc.,). None of the two sources of errors have been fully taken into account for deriving estimates neither at country nor at regional or worldwide levels.
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The World Bank
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Low & middle income
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Low & middle income | Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)
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20.03726006 2006
19.52898788 2007
19.01376724 2008
18.50245094 2009
18.01231194 2010
17.54159355 2011
17.06880951 2012
16.6089344 2013
16.1686554 2014
15.74407768 2015
15.33712673 2016
14.94906616 2017
14.60413647 2018
14.30585003 2019
14.04428577 2020
13.82208157 2021
13.62808228 2022

Low & middle income | Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of underweight children is the percentage of children 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 2006 Child Growth Standards. Limitations and exceptions: Survey estimates come with levels of uncertainty due to both sampling error and non-sampling error (e.g., measurement technical error, recording error etc.,). None of the two sources of errors have been fully taken into account for deriving estimates neither at country nor at regional or worldwide levels.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Low & middle income
Records
63
Source