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Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
200621.11
200921.62

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
20063.71
20093.92

Footnotes:

  1. Department of Census and Statistics, Ministry of Health Care and Nutrition. Sri Lanka demographic and health survey 2006/07: Preliminary report and selected tables from the chapters of the final report (I:\UnitData\SURVEILLANCE\GDCGM\data sets\Sri Lanka\D
  2. Jayatissa R. Nutrition and food security survey 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Medical Research Institute, 2010.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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