Prevalence Of Underweight Weight For Age Percentage Of Children Under 5 On World Map

Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5) (World) - 2022

Afghanistan	
Albania	
Algeria	
American_Samoa	
Andorra	
Angola	
Antigua_and_Barbuda	
Argentina	
Armenia	
Australia	
Austria	
Azerbaijan	
Bahrain	
Bangladesh	
Barbados	
Belarus	
Belgium	
Belize	
Benin	
Bhutan	
Bolivia	
Bosnia_and_Herzegovina	
Botswana	
Brazil	
Brunei	
Bulgaria	
Burkina_Faso	
Burundi	27.6
Cambodia	
Cameroon	
Canada	
Cape_Verde	
Central_African_Republic	
Chad	18.9
Chile	
China	
Colombia	
Comoros	
Costa_Rica	
Croatia	
Cuba	
Cyprus	
Czech_Republic	
Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo	
Denmark	
Djibouti	
Dominica	
Dominican_Republic	
East_Timor	
Ecuador	
Egypt	
El_Salvador	
Equatorial_Guinea	
Eritrea	
Estonia	
Ethiopia	
Faroe_Islands	
Federated_States_of_Micronesia	
Fiji	
Finland	
France	
Gabon	
Gambia	
Georgia	
Germany	
Ghana	
Greece	
Greenland	
Grenada	
Guam	
Guatemala	
Guinea	
Guinea_Bissau	
Guyana	
Haiti	
Honduras	
Hungary	
Iceland	
India	
Indonesia	
Iran	
Iraq	
Ireland	
Israel	
Italy	
Ivory_Coast	
Jamaica	
Japan	
Jordan	
Kazakhstan	
Kenya	10.1
Kiribati	
Kuwait	
Kyrgyzstan	
Laos	
Latvia	
Lebanon	
Lesotho	
Liberia	
Libya	
Liechtenstein	
Lithuania	
Luxembourg	
Macedonia	
Madagascar	
Malawi	
Malaysia	
Maldives	
Mali	18.5
Malta	
Marshall_Islands	
Mauritania	22.4
Mauritius	
Mexico	
Moldova	
Monaco	
Mongolia	
Montenegro	
Morocco	
Mozambique	
Myanmar	
Namibia	
Nauru	
Nepal	18.7
Netherlands	
New_Zealand	
Nicaragua	
Niger	34.6
Nigeria	
North_Korea	
Northern_Cyprus	
Northern_Mariana_Islands	
Norway	
Oman	
Pakistan	
Palau	
Panama	
Papua_New_Guinea	
Paraguay	
Peru	
Philippines	
Poland	
Portugal	
Puerto_Rico	
Qatar	
Republic_of_Congo	
Republic_of_Serbia	
Romania	
Russia	
Rwanda	
Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis	
Saint_Lucia	
Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines	
Samoa	
San_Marino	
Sao_Tome_and_Principe	
Saudi_Arabia	
Senegal	
Seychelles	
Sierra_Leone	
Singapore	
Slovakia	
Slovenia	
Solomon_Islands	
Somalia	
South_Africa	
South_Korea	
South_Sudan	
Spain	
Sri_Lanka	
Sudan	
Suriname	
Swaziland	
Sweden	
Switzerland	
Syria	
Tajikistan	
Thailand	
The_Bahamas	
Togo	
Tonga	
Trinidad_and_Tobago	
Tunisia	
Turkey	
Turkmenistan	
Tuvalu	
Uganda	
Ukraine	
United_Arab_Emirates	
United_Kingdom	
United_Republic_of_Tanzania	12.1
United_States_of_America	
United_States_Virgin_Islands	
Uruguay	
Uzbekistan	
Vanuatu	
Venezuela	
Vietnam	
Yemen	
Zambia	
Zimbabwe

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* Data Description : Prevalence of underweight children is the percentage of children under age 5 whose weight for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. The data are based on the WHOs new child growth standards released in 2006.
* Data Source : Worldbank.org
* By changing the date from the drop-down menu, you can view statistics on maps since 2000.
* Countries with the highest value of "Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)" in the World (2022) : Niger(34,6), Burundi(27,6), Mauritania(22,4), Chad(18,9), Nepal(18,7), Mali(18,5), United Republic of Tanzania(12,1), Kenya(10,1).

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