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Algeria | |
Angola | |
Benin | |
Botswana | |
Burkina Faso | |
Burundi | |
Cameroon | |
Cape Verde | |
Central African Republic | |
Chad | |
Comoros | |
Congo | |
Côte d’Ivoire | |
Djibouti | |
DRC | |
Egypt | |
Equatorial Guinea | |
Eritrea | |
Eswatini | |
Ethiopia | |
Gabon | |
Gambia | |
Ghana | |
Guinea | |
Guinea-Bissau | |
Kenya | |
Lesotho | |
Liberia | |
Libya | |
Madagascar | |
Malawi | |
Mali | |
Mauritania | |
Mauritius | |
Morocco | |
Mozambique | |
Namibia | |
Niger | |
Nigeria | |
Rwanda | |
SADR | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | |
Senegal | |
Seychelles | |
Sierra Leone | |
Somalia | |
South Africa | |
South Sudan | |
Sudan | |
Tanzania | |
Togo | |
Tunisia | |
Uganda | |
Zambia | |
Zimbabwe |
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health | |
Life expectancy at birth | |
Maternal mortality ratio | |
Stillbirth rate | |
Neonatal mortality rate | |
Infant mortality rate | |
Under 5 mortality rate | |
Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits | |
Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits | |
Births attended by skilled health personnel | |
Postpartum care coverage for mothers | |
Postnatal care coverage for newborns | |
Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months | |
Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination | |
Stunting - short height for age under age 5 | |
Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 | |
Overweight - heavy for height under 5 | |
Sexual and Reproductive Health | |
Child marriage before age 15 | |
Child marriage before age 18 | |
Female genital mutilation | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - female | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - male | |
Very early child bearing under age 16 | |
Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 | |
Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women | |
Demand satisfied for modern contraception | |
Communicable Diseases | |
New HIV infections | |
Antiretroviral treatment coverage | |
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV | |
Condom use | |
New TB infections | |
New malaria infections | |
Non-Communicable Diseases | |
Mortality from non-communicable diseases | |
Suicide mortality rate | |
Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over | |
Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over | |
Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over | |
Health Financing | |
External health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % GDP | |
Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure | |
Government health expenditure per capita | |
Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure | |
Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health | |
Health systems and policies | |
Density of health workers - physicians | |
Density of health workers - nurses and midwives | |
Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff | |
Qualified obstetricians | |
Birth registration | |
At least basic drinking water | |
At least basic sanitation services | |
Open defecation | |
Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
Full Name: | Prevalence of overweight (weight for height greater than two standard deviations from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) for children under five years of age. |
Full Unit: | Percentage, % |
Year-range of Data: | 1995 - 2018 |
Source: | UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Expanded Database |
Link to Source: | https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/ |
Date Source Published: | 1st April 2019 |
Date Source Accessed: | 15th May 2019 |
The following countries had no data: |
This is the prevalence of overweight (weight for height greater than two standard deviations from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) for children under five years of age. Child overweight refers to a child who is too heavy for their height that results from energy intakes from food and beverages that exceed children’s energy requirements.
This indicator is part of a set of indicators to measure nutritional imbalance and malnutrition leading to undernutrition (determined by underweight, stunting and wasting) or overweight. This form of malnutrition increases the risk of non-communicable diseases at a later stage in life. The WHO global nutrition targets 2025 include target 4, no increase in childhood overweight.
For the majority of countries, the data sources are household surveys that are nationally representative. A limited number of countries use data from surveillance systems if the population coverage that is documented is sufficient (around 80%). For both data sources, the child’s height and weight measurements must be collected following standard measuring techniques recommended by the WHO. Together, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank group review new data sources to update country-level estimates. Each agency uses their existing mechanisms for capturing data.
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More about indicator and sources
This is one of the World Health Assembly nutrition target indicators.The WHO global nutrition targets 2025 and diet-related global NCD targets for 2025, endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012 and 2013, respectively, provide concrete goals against which progress toward ending malnutrition in all its forms can be measured. Efforts to reach the global targets also contribute toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture; Target 2.2: by 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons. This indicator is also part of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030).
The reference population is based on the WHO Child Growth Standards, 2006. To conduct trend analyses of child nutritional status, it is important to ensure that estimates from various data sources are comparable over time. Age adjustment calculations have been applied to make trend analysis possible because estimatesfro various data sources differ and include some non-standard age groups. For more information on the calulations and the indicator, visit the UNICEF website: https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/
In the UNICEF data base, two data points provided for Rwanda for the year 2015: 7.9% (DHS, shown in this platform) and 5.6% (Rwanda 2015 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis).
More information on calculations
Prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting among children under-five estimates are calculated by comparing actual measurements to the WHO Child Growth standards (an international standard reference population). The standards, released in April 2006 by the World Health Organization, replaced the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO reference population. The new standards confirm that children born anywhere in the world and given the optimum start in life have the potential to reach the same range of height and weight. It states that differences in the growth of a child up to the age of five is more influenced by nutrition, feeding practices, environment and health care than by genetics or ethnicity.
For more information, see “Notes on the Data”: https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/