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Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
200024.71
200217.82
200420.63

Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
20026.92

Footnotes:

  1. Central Bureau of Statistics [DPRK]. Report of the second multiple indicator cluster survey 2000, DPRK (MICS). Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 2000.
  2. Central Bureau of Statistics (D.P.R. Korea). Nutrition assessment 2002 D.P.R. Korea. Pyongyang: Government of D.P.R. Korea, United Nations Children's Fund and World Food Programme, 2003 (and additional analysis).
  3. Central Bureau of Statistics, Institute of Child Nutrition. DPRK 2004 nutrition assessment, report of survey results. Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Central Bureau of Statistics, 2005.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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