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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009

2009, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Libya is highest, at 26.8511; Niger is lowest, at 0.5986. The middle country reads 6.1308. Against 2008, 163 values changed (68 up, 95 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2009

HighestLibya

26.8511

LowestNiger

0.5986

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1LibyaLBYNorthern Africa26.851125.388228.229123.026131.0552
2UkraineUKREastern Europe25.689024.268627.029815.529439.3954
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe23.506422.149124.747320.349226.9874
4Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe20.822519.590421.973817.795924.2122
5SyriaSYRWestern Asia18.894817.760719.977315.943722.2476
6MontenegroMNESouthern Europe17.560916.483118.576214.727520.8063
7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia17.467916.385418.468615.013320.2284
8SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe17.086516.051218.101914.756919.6990
9TongaTONPolynesia15.664014.676016.585211.781820.5279
10ArmeniaARMWestern Asia15.439714.440916.324813.286417.8701
11EgyptEGYNorthern Africa15.347114.385516.264413.417017.4987
12AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa15.031214.086215.933313.063117.2369
13Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean13.759812.894014.61177.335324.3336
14North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe13.739812.854514.567311.589916.2154
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa13.585612.712314.425711.508215.9703
16ComorosCOMEastern Africa13.461012.607914.293610.870316.5543
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.238312.389014.04998.743419.5489
18RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.947312.112113.74179.744417.0046
19South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa12.652011.838613.437210.676414.9322
20KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia12.554611.740813.328110.849014.4847
21AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia11.782310.978112.476210.221413.5455
22BarbadosBRBCaribbean11.386110.644212.10378.383615.2844
23AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.283810.540811.98809.308313.6156
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa11.138410.397311.82739.319913.2598
25IraqIRQWestern Asia11.110710.378611.80649.473512.9903

02In 2009

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Libya26.8511
  2. 2Ukraine25.6890
  3. 3Albania23.5064
  4. 4Bosnia and Herzegovina20.8225
  5. 5Syria18.8948

Lowest

  1. 163Niger0.5986
  2. 162Burkina Faso1.0856
  3. 161Nepal1.0956
  4. 160Sri Lanka1.1649
  5. 159North Korea1.3264

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.1308. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestLibya25.3882

    LowestNiger0.5549

    Middle country: 5.7050

  • Boys (%)

    HighestLibya28.2291

    LowestNiger0.6409

    Middle country: 6.5370

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestLibya23.0261

    LowestNiger0.5459

    Middle country: 5.0053

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine39.3954

    LowestNiger0.6563

    Middle country: 7.6201

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 68 · 95rose · 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 2009.

  • 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) (2009). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2009

0625 held

Other years

07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009?

Libya, at 26.8511, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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