Saturday 24 April 2010

World Bank statistics: prevalence of malnutrition

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. Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MALN.ZS

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