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Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
19941.71
19954.72
20042.33

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
20040.43

Footnotes:

  1. Lejarraga H, Krupitzky S, Gimenez E, Diament N, Kelmansky A, Tibaldi F, et al. The organisation of a national survey for evaluating child psychomotor development in Argentina. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1997;11:359-373 (and additional analysis)
  2. Calvo EB, Longo EN et al. Encuesta antropometrica en menores de 6 años bajo programa materno infantil. In: Estudios antropometricos en la poblacion infanto-juvenil. Rep. Argentina 1993-1996. Ministerio de Salud y Accion Social. Buenos Aires, 1999 (and add
  3. Durán P, Mangialavori G, Biglieri A, Kogan L, Gilardon EA. Nutrition status in Argentinean children 6 to 72 months old. Results from the National Nutrition and Health Survey (ENNyS). Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria 2009;107:397-404 (and additional analys

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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