Health
Undernourishment
SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS ยท %
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: 2.5% for Italy in 2023, over a series running from 2001 to 2023 and 8 countries compared, from the highest (Sierra Leone, 24.1%) to the lowest (Italy, 2.5%).
Compare with the other health indicatorsLatest known valueclick to hide
Year by year values
Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.
| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | China | South Sudan | Sierra Leone | Belgium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 22.3% | 24.1% | 2.5% |
| 2022 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 21% | 25.2% | 2.5% |
| 2021 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 21.4% | 26.3% | 2.5% |
| 2020 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 21.8% | 27.5% | 2.5% |
| 2019 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 27.8% | 2.5% | |
| 2018 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 27% | 2.5% | |
| 2017 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 26% | 2.5% | |
| 2016 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 24.5% | 2.5% | |
| 2015 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 24.1% | 2.5% | |
| 2014 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 23.2% | 2.5% | |
| 2013 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 23.2% | 2.5% | |
| 2012 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 21.9% | 2.5% | |
| 2011 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 21.6% | 2.5% | |
| 2010 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 22.5% | 2.5% | |
| 2009 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.9% | 24.8% | 2.5% | |
| 2008 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 3.9% | 28.1% | 2.5% | |
| 2007 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 4.9% | 31.9% | 2.5% | |
| 2006 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 6% | 36% | 2.5% | |
| 2005 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 6.9% | 40.2% | 2.5% | |
| 2004 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 7.8% | 44.4% | 2.5% | |
| 2003 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 8.6% | 47% | 2.5% | |
| 2002 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 9.3% | 49.2% | 2.5% | |
| 2001 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 10% | 50% | 2.5% |
World Bank definition
Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)
Prevalence of undernourishment is the percentage of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy levels that are required to maintain a normal active and healthy life. Data showing as 2.5 may signify a prevalence of undernourishment below 2.5%.
Text published by the World Bank for indicator SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS, reproduced unchanged.
The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia
Source: World Bank, World Bank Open Data Annual series, fetched server side and cached for 24 hours. The World Bank is never called from your browser.
