Health
Child malnutrition
SH.STA.MALN.ZS · %
Annual series published by the World Bank. 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.
Countries compared
8 countries compared out of 142 available.
Latest known value: 1% for Netherlands in 2009, over a series running from 1996 to 2009 and 6 countries compared, from the highest (Sudan, 33%) to the lowest (United States, 0.4%).
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Year by year values
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| Netherlands | United States | China | South Sudan | Sudan | Estonia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 0.4% | |||||
| 2016 | 1.4% | |||||
| 2014 | 0.7% | 33% | 0.4% | |||
| 2013 | 2.4% | |||||
| 2012 | 0.5% | |||||
| 2010 | 1% | 3.4% | 27.7% | 29.8% | ||
| 2009 | 1% | 3.4% | ||||
| 2008 | 0.7% | 3.8% | ||||
| 2006 | 0.7% | 32.5% | 27% | |||
| 2005 | 4.5% | |||||
| 2004 | 1.3% | |||||
| 2002 | 0.8% | 6.8% | ||||
| 2000 | 1.1% | 7.4% | ||||
| 1998 | 6.9% | |||||
| 1996 | 1.1% | |||||
| 1995 | 10.7% | |||||
| 1992 | 14.2% | |||||
| 1991 | 0.8% | |||||
| 1990 | 12.6% | |||||
| 1987 | 18.7% |
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.
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