Macro Indicators · SH.STA.MALN.ZS
Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)
Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5) data
Unweighted average of the 14 countries reporting in 2022
16.2Percentage
-1.5% on 2012. Country values run from 4.3 to 34.6 Percentage. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 53
- Years
- 2000–2024
- Observations
- 323
- Source
- World Bank WDI
Countries
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Years
2000 – 2024 · 25 years
Annual values by country, 2000 to 2024
World Bank WDI · Percentage · hover or use the arrow keys to read a year
- Burkina Faso
- Mali
- Niger
3 countries · 25 years · 323 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in Percentage
| Country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso BF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | 25.2 | 25.1 | 24.3 | 20.9 | 20 | 22.8 | 18.9 | 16.2 | 17.7 | 16.4 | 12.7 | 16.9 | — | — | — |
| Mali ML | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | 27.9 | — | — | — | 18.9 | 20 | — | — | 24.1 | 25 | 20.2 | 17.1 | 18.6 | 18.5 | 14.9 | 17.5 | 18.5 | — | 15 |
| Niger NE | 43.1 | — | — | — | — | — | 35.6 | 37.9 | 34.6 | 33.5 | 40 | 36.2 | 32.1 | 33.1 | 34.6 | 35.8 | 32 | — | 37.5 | 31.3 | 33.4 | 33.2 | 34.6 | — | — |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- SH.STA.MALN.ZS
- Unit
- Percentage
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- Macro Indicators
Values as published by World Bank WDI: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at data.worldbank.org.
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