Lower middle income - Malnutrition prevalence

Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5) in Lower middle income was 19.47 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 20 years was 31.67 in 2000, while its lowest value was 19.47 in 2020.

Definition: 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 child growth standards released in 2006.

Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.

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Year Value
2000 31.67
2001 30.97
2002 30.28
2003 29.59
2004 28.92
2005 28.25
2006 27.60
2007 26.95
2008 26.32
2009 25.69
2010 25.08
2011 24.47
2012 23.87
2013 23.29
2014 22.71
2015 22.14
2016 21.59
2017 21.04
2018 20.51
2019 19.98
2020 19.47

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition