Sub-National Malnutrition prevalence, weight for age (% of children under 5) — every country, all years (World Bank)
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. Every country, region and year the World Bank publishes for indicator SN.SH.STA.MALN.ZS (Subnational Malnutrition Database), delivered as a tidy table — country, ISO code, year and value — ready for analysis in Excel, R, Python or the Intigal AI workspace. Original compiler: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries. Adjusted, co.
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