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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007

2007, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Ukraine is highest, at 27.7505; Niger is lowest, at 0.6455. The middle country reads 6.4927. Against 2006, 163 values changed (77 up, 86 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2007

HighestUkraine

27.7505

LowestNiger

0.6455

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, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe27.750526.260129.160518.343339.6402
2LibyaLBYNorthern Africa27.711426.219129.116723.685932.1329
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe24.385922.991225.655421.031728.0848
4Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe21.906120.628723.102218.988125.1334
5SyriaSYRWestern Asia19.844618.667720.968617.254322.7170
6GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia19.293418.121020.370716.706622.1742
7MontenegroMNESouthern Europe18.486217.362019.540415.340822.1081
8SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe18.199317.106619.260915.495921.2557
9TongaTONPolynesia15.674514.683516.593311.170321.5542
10EgyptEGYNorthern Africa15.634714.659916.567713.807717.6540
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa15.518314.548416.444413.568517.6910
12ArmeniaARMWestern Asia15.387114.378216.255213.308617.7238
13ComorosCOMEastern Africa15.024214.087315.934612.381418.1146
14RussiaRUSEastern Europe14.597813.673715.476411.836817.8722
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa14.092313.191214.958111.901016.6111
16North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe14.050713.149114.894511.918516.4930
17Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean12.882912.071613.69726.409024.2052
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.840112.011013.62929.189117.6598
19KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia12.522111.710813.294710.727414.5681
20South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa12.275511.483013.040710.126014.8060
21EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa11.478910.738212.20909.964813.1892
22AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia11.404710.623312.07969.879413.1311
23IraqIRQWestern Asia11.144010.409911.84159.581112.9254
24BarbadosBRBCaribbean10.992410.275211.69097.637015.5734
25QatarQATWestern Asia10.876010.153711.55466.799016.9532

02In 2007

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine27.7505
  2. 2Libya27.7114
  3. 3Albania24.3859
  4. 4Bosnia and Herzegovina21.9061
  5. 5Syria19.8446

Lowest

  1. 163Niger0.6455
  2. 162Nepal0.9857
  3. 161Sri Lanka1.1324
  4. 160Burkina Faso1.1941
  5. 159North Korea1.2010

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.4927. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestUkraine26.2601

    LowestNiger0.5984

    Middle country: 6.0370

  • Boys (%)

    HighestUkraine29.1605

    LowestNiger0.6912

    Middle country: 6.9135

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestLibya23.6859

    LowestNiger0.5832

    Middle country: 4.9808

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine39.6402

    LowestNiger0.7144

    Middle country: 7.9107

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 77 · 86rose · 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 2007.

  • 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) (2007). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2007

0625 held

Other years

07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007?

Ukraine, at 27.7505, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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