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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005

2005, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Ukraine is highest, at 28.716; Niger is lowest, at 0.723. The middle country reads 6.480. Against 2004, 163 values changed (95 up, 68 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2005

HighestUkraine

28.716

LowestNiger

0.723

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe28.71627.19330.15420.570138.524
2LibyaLBYNorthern Africa26.99125.52628.37622.875231.545
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe24.21022.82825.48020.384728.497
4Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe22.10420.81923.30919.141325.381
5GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia20.29319.07421.41117.457923.458
6SyriaSYRWestern Asia20.06618.87921.19917.423322.998
7SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe18.66917.54819.74415.500122.314
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe18.51617.39419.57514.917822.750
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe15.85314.86416.79313.669218.313
10ComorosCOMEastern Africa15.80814.82416.74913.150918.884
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa15.49314.52516.41913.569017.634
12EgyptEGYNorthern Africa15.45214.48616.37513.664517.426
13TongaTONPolynesia15.23314.26616.13210.262722.021
14ArmeniaARMWestern Asia14.84713.86715.68912.842417.103
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa14.12813.22114.99111.992816.571
16North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe13.93113.03514.76811.802416.372
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.32111.52113.0839.315616.124
18UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia12.25611.45813.01210.409614.377
19EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.02811.25812.79010.365613.915
20Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean12.00911.23512.7645.623423.816
21South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa11.97711.20112.7269.756914.620
22KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia11.83911.06712.57610.060813.884
23ChileCHLSouth America11.18110.44711.88310.008112.472
24BelizeBLZCentral America11.02310.30211.7218.742613.808
25QatarQATWestern Asia10.86310.13911.5386.934016.620

02In 2005

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine28.716
  2. 2Libya26.991
  3. 3Albania24.210
  4. 4Bosnia and Herzegovina22.104
  5. 5Georgia20.293

Lowest

  1. 163Niger0.723
  2. 162Nepal0.893
  3. 161Bangladesh1.069
  4. 160Sri Lanka1.085
  5. 159North Korea1.104

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.480. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestUkraine27.193

    LowestNiger0.671

    Middle country: 6.009

  • Boys (%)

    HighestUkraine30.154

    LowestNiger0.775

    Middle country: 6.882

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestLibya22.8752

    LowestNiger0.6464

    Middle country: 4.7284

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine38.524

    LowestNiger0.809

    Middle country: 8.052

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 95 · 68rose · 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 2005.

  • 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) (2005). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2005

0625 held

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07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005?

Ukraine, at 28.716, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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