Australia - Child obesity

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height (% of children under 5)

Definition: Prevalence of overweight children is the percentage of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's new 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.

See also:

Year Value
1995 7.90
2007 7.70
2014 17.90
2017 22.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition