Malnourished children proportion of children under five who are underweight, 2000–2006, most recent year available
Greenland (Den)
30% or more
Faeroe Islands (Den)
Iceland
Sweden Finland
Norway
20–29%
The Netherlands
C a n a d a
10–19%
United Kingdom
Isle of Man (UK)
5–9%
Denmark
Ireland
less than 5%
Fra
Luxembourg
no data
Liechtenstein Andorra
U n i t e d
S t a t e s
Monaco
Spain
Portugal
Gibraltar (UK)
Bermuda (UK)
Morocco
US Virgin Islands (US)
The Bahamas Mexico
Cayman Islands (UK) Belize
Dominican Republic Puerto Rico (US)
Cuba
Alg
St. Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda
Haiti
Jamaica
Guatemala Honduras Aruba (Neth) El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica
Former Spanish Sahara
Guadeloupe (Fr)
Dominica
Martinique (Fr) St. Lucia
Barbados
Cape Verde
Kiribati
Suriname
Mali
Guinea-Bissau
Belarus
Eritrea
Chad
Guinea
Sierra Leone Liberia
Sudan
Burkina Faso Benin Côte Ghana d'Ivoire Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe
Ecuador
Poland
Niger
The Gambia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Grenada R.B. de French Guiana Venezuela Guyana (Fr) Colombia
Netherlands Antilles (Neth)
Mauritania Senegal
F e d e r a t i o n
Czech Republic Slovak Republic Slovenia Croatia Ukraine Kazakhstan Serbia Austria nce Hungary Moldova Bosnia and Herzegovina Mongolia Switzerland Romania FYR Macedonia Italy Montenegro Bulgaria Uzbekistan Georgia Kyrgyz Republic Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Greece Turkmenistan Turkey Tajikistan Cyprus San Syrian Marino Islamic Republic Tunisia Lebanon Arab Rep. of Iran Afghanistan C h i Malta Iraq Israel Kuwait Jordan Pakistan West Bank and Gaza Nepal Bhutan eria Bahrain Libya Saudi Arabia Arab Rep. of Egypt United Arab Bangladesh Qatar Emirates Myanmar India Oman Germany Belgium
Channel Islands (UK)
R u s s i a n
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Rep. of Yemen
Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea Congo Gabon
Sri Lanka Somalia
N. Mariana Islands (US) Philippines
Guam (US)
Brunei Darussalam
Maldives
Kenya
Federated States of Micronesia
Singapore Nauru
Indonesia Papua New Guinea
Seychelles Tanzania
Peru
B r a z i l
Comoros
Zambia Malawi
American Samoa (US)
Timor-Leste
Vanuatu
Bolivia Zimbabwe Mozambique Madagascar Namibia Botswana Réunion (Fr)
Paraguay
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Mayotte (Fr)
Angola
French Polynesia (Fr)
Marshall Islands
Palau
Malaysia
Uganda Dem. Rep. Rwanda of Congo Burundi
Japan
Lao P.D.R. Vietnam Cambodia
Ethiopia
Central African Republic
Rep. of Korea
n a
Thailand
Djibouti Nigeria
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea
Fiji
New Caledonia (Fr)
Mauritius
A u s t r a l i a
Samoa Tonga
Swaziland Lesotho South Africa
Uruguay
Chile Argentina
New Zealand
Malnourished children are vulnerable to diseases
Highest rates of malnutrition Rank
Country
children under 5 (%), 2000–2006
1
India
43.5
2
Yemen, Rep.
41.3
3
Timor-Leste
40.6
4
Niger
39.9
5
Bangladesh
6
Burundi
7
Nepal
8
Sudan
9
Madagascar
10
Lao PDR
39.2
Facts Malnutrition is an underlying cause for around half of all child deaths worldwide. 75 percent of the children who die from causes related to malnutrition were only mildly or moderately undernourished, showing the vulnerability of these children. More than one-quarter of children ages under 5 (about 140 million) in developing countries are underweight. Of these children, nearly three-quarters live in only 10 countries.
Delivered by The World Bank e-library to: SouthNetwork Asia has the highest prevalence of underweight children, where 38.9 Bank - IMF Library The World more than 40 percent of children under five are underweight. 38.8IP : 138.220.77.170 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:02 38.4 On average, children in rural areas are twice as likely to be underweight as children in urban areas, and poor children are more 36.8 than twice as likely to be underweight as rich children. 36.4
Internet links World Health Organization
www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/en/
UNICEF Childinfo
www.childinfo.org/ undernutrition.html
UNICEF
www.unicef.org/health/ index_statistics.html
Food and Agriculture Organization
www.fao.org/faostat/ foodsecurity/
Rich and poor
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