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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003

2003, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Ukraine is highest, at 28.281; Nepal is lowest, at 0.818. The middle country reads 6.368. Against 2002, 163 values changed (108 up, 55 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2003

HighestUkraine

28.281

LowestNepal

0.818

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003, as published. UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 163 countries · select a heading to sort

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe28.28126.77329.70821.735035.8952
2LibyaLBYNorthern Africa24.76023.37426.06920.753129.2544
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe22.93321.61624.17218.531328.0216
4Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe21.07019.83122.23517.989324.5211
5GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia20.18818.97921.30717.000823.8020
6SyriaSYRWestern Asia19.48118.32020.58916.818422.4505
7SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe18.20717.10919.26314.595322.4781
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe17.52616.46218.55313.713622.1262
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe16.41115.39517.37914.783218.1807
10ComorosCOMEastern Africa15.49614.52316.41712.933918.4582
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa14.85813.92415.75313.072016.8396
12EgyptEGYNorthern Africa14.65913.73215.54112.798016.7395
13TongaTONPolynesia14.47913.54915.3389.190122.0714
14ArmeniaARMWestern Asia13.77512.86314.57612.008415.7543
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa13.58612.70314.41511.466316.0255
16UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia13.28712.43314.09911.328115.5261
17North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe13.26612.40514.06811.159815.6994
18EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.46811.67513.25510.627114.5767
19South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa11.74710.98512.4859.330614.6889
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe11.74410.97712.4769.067015.0805
21BelizeBLZCentral America11.46510.71812.1868.708814.9516
22ChileCHLSouth America11.39710.65112.11210.213012.6985
23Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean11.17310.43011.8635.024323.0237
24MalawiMWIEastern Africa10.87310.17411.5789.790912.0591
25QatarQATWestern Asia10.76010.02911.4156.992416.2041

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine28.281
  2. 2Libya24.760
  3. 3Albania22.933
  4. 4Bosnia and Herzegovina21.070
  5. 5Georgia20.188

Lowest

  1. 163Nepal0.818
  2. 162Niger0.834
  3. 161Bangladesh0.909
  4. 160Sri Lanka1.027
  5. 159North Korea1.035

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.368. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestUkraine26.773

    LowestNepal0.758

    Middle country: 5.933

  • Boys (%)

    HighestUkraine29.708

    LowestNepal0.875

    Middle country: 6.795

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine21.7350

    LowestNepal0.7033

    Middle country: 4.5352

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine35.8952

    LowestNepal0.9500

    Middle country: 8.0534

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 108 · 55rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNICEF’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2003.

  • The position is ours

    UNICEF publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 163 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates) (2003). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2003

0625 held

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07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003?

Ukraine, at 28.281, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2003 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024.

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