Sierra Leone | Malnutrition prevalence, weight for age (% of children under 5)
Prevalence of child malnutrition 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 new child growth standards released in 2006.
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| 1975 | 25 |
| 1976 | |
| 1977 | |
| 1978 | 20.4 |
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| 1989 | 23.7 |
| 1990 | 25.4 |
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| 2000 | 24.7 |
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| 2005 | 28.3 |
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| 2007 | |
| 2008 | 21.3 |
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Sierra Leone | Malnutrition prevalence, weight for age (% of children under 5)
Prevalence of child malnutrition 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 new child growth standards released in 2006.