Prevalence of overweight (% of children under 5) - Human development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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Prevalence of overweight children is the percentage of children 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 new child growth standards released in 2006. Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition.
Prevalence of overweight (% of children under 5) - Human development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data)

Rank

Country

Value

1Comoros (2000)21.5
2North Africa (2000)17.29
3Algeria (2002)15.4
4Swaziland (2000)14.9
5Egypt (2005)14.1
6Morocco (2004)13.3
7Central African Republic (2000)10.8
8Botswana (2000)10.4
9Malawi (2005)10.2
10Sao Tome and Principe (2000)9.2
11Zimbabwe (2006)9.1
12Ivory Coast (2006)9
13Cameroon (2004)8.7
14Republic of the Congo (2005)8.5
15Equatorial Guinea (2004)8.3
16Lesotho (2005)6.8
17Rwanda (2005)6.7
18Democratic Republic of the Congo (2001)6.5
19Mozambique (2003)6.3
20Nigeria (2003)6.2
21Madagascar (2004)6.2
22Zambia (2002)5.9
23Sierra Leone (2005)5.9
24Kenya (2003)5.8
25Gabon (2001)5.6
26Burkina Faso (2003)5.4
27Angola (2001)5.3
28Sudan (2000)5.2
29Guinea-Bissau (2000)5.1
30Guinea (2005)5.1
31Ethiopia (2005)5.1
32Tanzania (2005)4.9
33Uganda (2001)4.9
34Mali (2006)4.7
35Somalia (2006)4.7
36Namibia (2007)4.6
37Ghana (2003)4.5
38Chad (2004)4.4
39Tunisia (1988)4.3
40Liberia (2007)4.2
41Mauritania (2001)3.8
42Niger (2006)3.5
43Benin (2001)3
44Gambia (2006)2.7
45Togo (1998)2.6
46Senegal (2005)2.4
47Eritrea (2002)1.6
48Burundi (2000)1.4
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