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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016

2016, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Australia is highest, at 17.3251; Niger is lowest, at 0.7017. The middle country reads 5.3743. Against 2015, 162 values changed (75 up, 87 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2016

HighestAustralia

17.3251

LowestNiger

0.7017

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.325116.261518.332713.79221.5376
2AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe16.893615.833717.861613.79320.5254
3Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean16.603315.597217.602211.38023.5867
4UkraineUKREastern Europe16.549715.520317.51686.75435.1916
5TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa15.877414.882216.813013.31818.8223
6LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.696214.714216.627613.12818.6584
7Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia15.263814.296116.165210.15122.3132
8Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe14.613013.680615.483910.41520.1239
9GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.917513.026314.75826.59827.0100
10TongaTONPolynesia13.702712.828314.538411.35316.4483
11South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa13.298512.450114.118111.55915.2553
12ArmeniaARMWestern Asia13.196412.319913.972410.62216.2814
13Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean12.924212.095413.72338.89118.4170
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa12.869112.039513.661010.90715.1239
15SyriaSYRWestern Asia12.836012.006613.62438.49418.9392
16BarbadosBRBCaribbean12.664211.850813.45098.76717.9526
17ParaguayPRYSouth America12.220411.427112.978310.04614.7879
18AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa11.992011.213112.739510.04714.2535
19MontenegroMNESouthern Europe11.841011.055712.56349.70214.3761
20SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe11.799211.031712.53699.94713.9430
21ArgentinaARGSouth America11.396510.646412.10609.09014.1968
22PanamaPANCentral America11.392310.644012.10359.29813.8867
23CanadaCANNorthern America11.350710.606312.06125.01423.6987
24North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe11.168810.430411.86449.12713.5995
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa11.035710.303911.73649.44212.8600

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Australia17.3251
  2. 2Albania16.8936
  3. 3Turks and Caicos Islands16.6033
  4. 4Ukraine16.5497
  5. 5Tunisia15.8774

Lowest

  1. 163Niger0.7017
  2. 162Djibouti1.0375
  3. 161Mali1.0698
  4. 160Burkina Faso1.0935
  5. 159Sri Lanka1.1563

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.3743. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestAustralia16.2615

    LowestNiger0.6505

    Middle country: 4.9988

  • Boys (%)

    HighestAustralia18.3327

    LowestNiger0.7513

    Middle country: 5.7341

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestAlbania13.793

    LowestNiger0.638

    Middle country: 4.012

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine35.1916

    LowestNiger0.7722

    Middle country: 7.3713

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 162values changed, of 163 in both
  • 75 · 87rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya17.5909 → 15.6962−1.8947
  • Ukraine17.7802 → 16.5497−1.2305
  • Georgia9.9706 → 8.8840−1.0866
  • Albania17.7890 → 16.8936−0.8954
  • Syria13.6969 → 12.8360−0.8609

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 2016.

  • 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) (2016). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2016

0625 held

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07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016?

Australia, at 17.3251, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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