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Prevalence of underweight, weight for age, female

Prevalence of underweight, female, is the percentage of girls 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.

Latest, 202112.8%of children under 5Annual release · Not updated
vs 2015+0.7 pp12.1%
High since 198726.5% of children under 51987 · World Bank
Low since 198712.1% of children under 52015 · World Bank

Over time

1987 - 2021

Recent years

  1. 202112.8% of children under 5+0.7 pp
  2. 201512.1% of children under 5−1.2 pp
  3. 200913.3% of children under 5−4.7 pp
  4. 200218% of children under 5−1.4 pp
  5. 200019.4% of children under 5+1.6 pp
  6. 199917.8% of children under 5−3.3 pp
  7. 199521.1% of children under 5−5.4 pp
  8. 198726.5% of children under 5