Flag of Afghanistan

Child malnutrition

Factbook > Countries > Afghanistan > Health

Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
199744.91
200432.92

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
200412.22

Footnotes:

  1. Afghanistan 1997 multiple indicator baseline (MICS). Report to UNICEF. Acapulco: Centro de Investigacion de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), 1998 (and additional analysis).
  2. Ministry of Public Health (Afghanistan), UNICEF, CDC, National Institute for Research on Food and Nutrition (Italy), Tufts University. Summary report of the national nutrition survey, 2004. Kabul, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Ministry of Public Health

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

© 2020 IndexMundi. All rights reserved.