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This entry gives the percent of children under five considered to be underweight. Underweight means weight-for-age is less than minus two standard deviations from the median of the World Health Organization Child Growth Standards among children under 5 years of age. This statistic is an indicator of the nutritional status of a community. Children who suffer from growth retardation as a result of poor diets and/or recurrent infections tend to have a greater risk of suffering illness and death.

Afghanistan

19.1% (2018)

Albania

1.5% (2017/18)

Algeria

2.7% (2018/19)

Angola

19% (2015/16)

Argentina

1.7% (2018/19)

Armenia

2.6% (2015/16)

Azerbaijan

4.9% (2013)

Bangladesh

22.6% (2019)

Belgium

1% (2014/15)

Belize

4.6% (2015/16)

Benin

16.8% (2017/18)

Bolivia

3.4% (2016)

Bulgaria

1.9% (2014)

Burkina Faso

17.5% (2021)

Burma

19.1% (2017/18)

Burundi

27.6% (2022)

Cambodia

16.3% (2022)

Cameroon

11% (2018/19)

Chad

18.9% (2022)

Chile

0.5% (2014)

China

2.4% (2013)

Colombia

3.7% (2015/16)

Congo, Republic of the

12.3% (2014/15)

Costa Rica

2.9% (2018)

Cote d'Ivoire

12.8% (2016)

Cuba

2.4% (2019)

Djibouti

16.2% (2019)

Ecuador

5.2% (2018/19)

Egypt

7% (2014)

El Salvador

5% (2014)

Estonia

0.4% (2013/15)

Eswatini

5.8% (2014)

Ethiopia

21.1% (2019)

Fiji

4.6% (2021) NA

Gabon

6.4% (2019/20)

Gambia, The

11.6% (2019/20)

Gaza Strip

2.1% (2019/20)

note: estimate is for Gaza Strip and the West Bank

Georgia

2.1% (2018)

Germany

0.5% (2014/17)

Ghana

12.6% (2017/18)

Guatemala

14.4% (2021/22)

Guinea

16.3% (2018)

Guinea-Bissau

18.8% (2019)

Guyana

9.4% (2019)

Haiti

9.5% (2016/17)

Honduras

7.1% (2019)

India

31.5% (2019/21)

Indonesia

17.7% (2018)

Iran

4.3% (2017)

Iraq

3.9% (2018)

Jamaica

2.5% (2018/19)

Jordan

2.7% (2019)

Kazakhstan

2% (2015)

Kenya

10.1% (2022)

Kiribati

6.9% (2018/19)

Korea, North

9.3% (2017)

Korea, South

0.9% (2019/21) NA

Kuwait

2.5% (2020)

Kyrgyzstan

1.8% (2018)

Laos

21.1% (2017)

Latvia

21.1% (2020/21) NA

Lebanon

3.4% (2021) NA

Lesotho

10.5% (2018)

Liberia

10.9% (2019/20)

Libya

11.7% (2014)

Lithuania

2.5% (2021) NA

Madagascar

22.6% (2021)

Malawi

11.7% (2020)

Malaysia

14.1% (2019)

Maldives

14.8% (2016/17)

Mali

18.5% (2022)

Marshall Islands

11.9% (2017)

Mauritania

22.4% (2022)

Mexico

4.2% (2021)

Mongolia

1.8% (2018)

Montenegro

3.7% (2018/19)

Morocco

2.8% (2019/20)

note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara

Mozambique

14.6% (2019/20)

Namibia

13.2% (2013)

Nepal

18.7% (2022)

Niger

34.6% (2022)

Nigeria

18.4% (2019/20)

North Macedonia

0.9% (2018/19)

Oman

11.2% (2016/17)

Pakistan

23.1% (2017/18)

Panama

3% (2019)

Paraguay

1.3% (2016)

Peru

2.1% (2021)

Philippines

19.1% (2018)

Portugal

0.4% (2015/16)

Rwanda

7.7% (2019/20)

Samoa

3.4% (2019/20)

Saudi Arabia

3.5% (2020) NA

Senegal

14.4% (2019)

Serbia

1% (2019)

Sierra Leone

12% (2021)

Solomon Islands

16.2% (2015)

South Africa

5.5% (2017)

Sri Lanka

20.5% (2016)

Sudan

33% (2014)

Suriname

6.7% (2018)

Tajikistan

7.6% (2017)

Tanzania

12.1% (2022)

Thailand

7.7% (2019)

Timor-Leste

31.9% (2020)

Togo

15.2% (2017)

Tonga

0.8% (2019)

Tunisia

1.6% (2018)

Turkey (Turkiye)

1.5% (2018/19)

Turkmenistan

3.1% (2019)

Turks and Caicos Islands

0.4% (2019/20) NA

Tuvalu

3.1% (2019/20) NA

Uganda

7.6% (2019/20)

United States

0.4% (2017/18)

Uruguay

1.8% (2018)

Uzbekistan

1.8% (2021)

Vanuatu

11.7% (2013)

Vietnam

11.6% (2020)

West Bank

2.1% (2019/20)

note: estimate is for Gaza Strip and the West Bank

Yemen

39.9% (2013)

Zambia

11.8% (2018/19)

Zimbabwe

9.7% (2019)