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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006

2006, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Ukraine is highest, at 28.398; Niger is lowest, at 0.680. The middle country reads 6.491. Against 2005, 163 values changed (85 up, 78 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2006

HighestUkraine

28.398

LowestNiger

0.680

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe28.39826.88529.826419.653139.138
2LibyaLBYNorthern Africa27.55426.06928.956023.475132.046
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe24.44923.05225.720920.902828.380
4Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe22.17720.88923.383919.211525.455
5SyriaSYRWestern Asia20.06018.87421.193317.527322.858
6GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia19.90818.70621.010117.105823.041
7MontenegroMNESouthern Europe18.62917.49819.689415.193322.634
8SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe18.56517.45219.639715.552722.009
9EgyptEGYNorthern Africa15.62114.64616.552613.721517.728
10AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa15.57614.60416.505613.608117.771
11ComorosCOMEastern Africa15.54014.57316.472212.846418.678
12TongaTONPolynesia15.50314.52116.413510.720821.896
13RussiaRUSEastern Europe15.29814.33816.211612.918618.026
14ArmeniaARMWestern Asia15.19614.19716.054113.152417.494
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa14.17613.26915.043911.961016.723
16North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe14.05113.14914.894111.869116.558
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.59311.77713.36869.276416.874
18Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean12.44411.65413.23196.022923.965
19KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia12.26611.46913.025310.519214.257
20South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa12.11111.32812.86749.891314.747
21EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa11.76311.00712.509410.202713.526
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia11.53910.78112.25669.737113.623
23ChileCHLSouth America11.02610.30111.71979.869712.299
24AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia11.01910.26111.67399.549812.682
25IraqIRQWestern Asia10.95010.22811.63739.359612.774

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine28.398
  2. 2Libya27.554
  3. 3Albania24.449
  4. 4Bosnia and Herzegovina22.177
  5. 5Syria20.060

Lowest

  1. 163Niger0.680
  2. 162Nepal0.937
  3. 161Sri Lanka1.110
  4. 160North Korea1.148
  5. 159Bangladesh1.154

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.491. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestUkraine26.885

    LowestNiger0.631

    Middle country: 6.020

  • Boys (%)

    HighestUkraine29.8264

    LowestNiger0.7285

    Middle country: 6.8937

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestLibya23.4751

    LowestNiger0.6113

    Middle country: 4.8981

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine39.138

    LowestNiger0.757

    Middle country: 7.965

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 85 · 78rose · 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 2006.

  • 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) (2006). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2006

0625 held

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07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006?

Ukraine, at 28.398, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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