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Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
199914.11
2008122

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
19993.31
20082.42

Footnotes:

  1. Ministry of Health and Education. National anthropometric survey of under five children in Bhutan. Division of Health Services. Thimpu, Bhutan, 1999 (and additional analysis).
  2. Ministry of Health, National Statistics Bureau and Centre for Research Initiative. National nutrition, infant & young child feeding survey 2008. Thimphu, Bhutan: Ministry of Health and UNICEF, 2009 (and additional analysis).

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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