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Prevalence of overweight, weight for height, male

Prevalence of overweight, male, is the percentage of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.

Latest, 20155.1%of children under 5Annual release · Not updated
vs 2009−0.1 pp5.2%
High since 19878.4% of children under 52000 · World Bank
Low since 19873.4% of children under 51987 · World Bank

Over time

1987 - 2015

Recent years

  1. 20155.1% of children under 5−0.1 pp
  2. 20095.2% of children under 5−0.9 pp
  3. 20026.1% of children under 5−2.3 pp
  4. 20008.4% of children under 5+0.8 pp
  5. 19997.6% of children under 5+0.8 pp
  6. 19956.8% of children under 5+3.4 pp
  7. 19873.4% of children under 5