Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).

Positionderived	Country	Children under 5 who are overweight (%)	Girls (%)	Boys (%)	Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)	Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)
1	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	26.4308	24.9865	27.7995	15.5714	41.1705
2	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	18.4608	17.3360	19.5119	8.0835	36.8230
3	Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean	18.3414	17.2348	19.4014	11.7077	27.5606
4	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	17.4790	16.4101	18.4961	10.4171	27.8404
5	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	16.6834	15.6430	17.6519	9.6099	27.3860
6	UkraineUKREastern Europe	15.9817	14.9847	16.9262	4.8643	41.4399
7	ParaguayPRYSouth America	15.3954	14.4320	16.3157	8.5763	26.0893
8	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	14.9765	14.0386	15.8807	6.5586	30.6543
9	ArgentinaARGSouth America	14.2751	13.3687	15.1383	8.6774	22.5906
10	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	13.5938	12.7357	14.4357	8.3069	21.4580
11	UruguayURYSouth America	13.4986	12.6321	14.3203	8.3791	21.0279
12	GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	13.4846	12.6149	14.3011	4.3557	34.7875
13	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	13.3175	12.4654	14.1350	8.5275	20.2039
14	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	13.0277	12.1821	13.8196	5.6400	27.2933
15	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	13.0229	12.1904	13.8290	5.5908	27.4611
16	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	12.8670	12.0297	13.6499	6.8613	22.8406
17	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	12.8154	12.0000	13.6173	7.6053	20.7914
18	MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	12.2926	11.4964	13.0556	8.8389	16.8464
19	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	12.2665	11.4601	13.0148	7.5604	19.2905
20	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	12.2284	11.4367	12.9891	7.5575	19.1871
21	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	11.4868	10.7441	12.2156	4.2405	27.5529
22	CanadaCANNorthern America	11.3564	10.6106	12.0661	3.5305	30.9621
23	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	11.2227	10.4844	11.9249	7.9724	15.5738
24	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	11.1793	10.4431	11.8787	4.5038	25.1441
25	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	11.1755	10.4358	11.8842	7.2139	16.9160

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.5000. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Girls (%)

  HighestAustralia24.9865

  LowestMyanmar0.5770

  Middle country: 5.1124

• Boys (%)

  HighestAustralia27.7995

  LowestMyanmar0.6664

  Middle country: 5.8632

• Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

  HighestAustralia15.5714

  LowestMyanmar0.3596

  Middle country: 3.3216

• Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

  HighestUkraine41.4399

  LowestMyanmar1.0771

  Middle country: 10.4336

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