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Child malnutrition

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Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
199521.71
199820.32
200019.63
200217.74

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
19956.81
19985.42
20023.94

Footnotes:

  1. Encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 1995. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 1996 (and additional analysis).
  2. Encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 1998-1999. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 1999 (and additional analysis).
  3. Marini A and Gragnolati M. Malnutrition and poverty in Guatemala. Policy Research Working Paper 2967. The World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Human Development Sector Unit, 2003 (and additional analysis).
  4. Ministerio de Salud Publica y Asistencia Social, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, et al. Guatemala encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 2002. Ciudad de Guatemala, Republica de Guatemala: Oscar de Leon Palacios,

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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