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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
160
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    UNICEF

    UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology., UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology

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    World Health Organization

    World Health Organization (WHO), note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Bank (WB), note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

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Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Ecuador20244.70percent
Lesotho20248percent
Mali20241.60percent
Azerbaijan20234.40percent
Belgium20237.70percent
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the20234.10percent
Djibouti20234.40percent
Ecuador20235.50percent
Haiti20234.10percent
Indonesia20234.50percent

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