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Child malnutrition

SH.STA.MALN.ZS · %

Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, Iraq, Bosnia, Bulgaria. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.

Latest value, Netherlands
1%2009
Period covered
1996 - 20092 annual values
Highest of the compared countries
3.9%Iraq, 2018
Lowest of the compared countries
0.4%United States, 2018

8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.

0510152019871995200320102018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Iraq3.9%2018
  • China2.4%2013
  • Bulgaria1.7%2014
  • Bosnia1.6%2012
  • Netherlands1%2009
  • United States0.4%2018

Year by year values

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Annual values by country
NetherlandsUnited StatesChinaIraqBosniaBulgaria
20180.4%3.9%
20161.4%
20140.7%1.7%
20132.4%
20120.5%1.6%
20117.2%
20101%3.4%
20091%3.4%
20080.7%3.8%
20073.7%
20060.7%7.1%1.6%
20054.5%
20041.3%8%2%
200310.1%
20020.8%6.8%
20001.1%7.4%12.8%4.2%
19986.9%
19961.1%
199510.7%
199214.2%

World Bank definition

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

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 WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.

Text published by the World Bank for indicator SH.STA.MALN.ZS, reproduced unchanged.

The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia

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