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Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
199861
20063.42

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
19981.31
20060.62

Footnotes:

  1. Encuesta nacional de nutricion 1999. Tomo 1: Resultados, niños menores de 5 años. Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica. Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2000 (and additional analysis).
  2. Olaiz-Fernández G, Rivera-Dommarco J, Shamah-Levy T, Rojas R, Villalpando-Hernández S, Hernández-Avila M, et al. Encuesta nacional de salud y nutrición 2006. Cuernavaca, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2006 (and additional analysis).

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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