Malnutrition prevalence, weight for age (% of children under 5)
Prevalence of child malnutrition is the percentage of children
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. The data are based on the WHO's new
child growth standards released in 2006. World Health
Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition.
Aggregation is based on UNICEF/WHO Joint Global Malnutrition
Analysis Date Set 2011, and additional analysis by UNICEF.