Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: child-overweight-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	163	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	163	0
Children under 5 who are overweight (%)child_overweightHeadline	The headline figure: Children under 5 who are overweight (%).	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.6229Myanmar26.4308Australiamiddle 5.5000	163	0
Girls (%)femaleWomen	The same modelled estimate, for girls under five.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.5770Myanmar24.9865Australiamiddle 5.1124	163	0
Boys (%)maleMen	The same modelled estimate, for boys under five.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.6664Myanmar27.7995Australiamiddle 5.8632	163	0
Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)lowerwhiskerMeasure	Lower limit of the Joint Malnutrition Estimates' uncertainty interval around the estimate, in percent of children under five.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.3596Myanmar15.5714Australiamiddle 3.3216	163	0
Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)upperwhiskerMeasure	Upper limit of the Joint Malnutrition Estimates' uncertainty interval around the estimate, in percent of children under five.	Number · up to 4 decimals	1.0771Myanmar41.4399Ukrainemiddle 10.4336	163	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 25 years.

The same 163 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 62 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustriaBahamasBahrainBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusDenmarkDominicaFaroe IslandsFranceFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyKosovoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates)

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Joint Malnutrition Estimates (country model, March 2025 release) — overweight, 2024

   .NT_ANT_WHZ_PO2_MOD

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   25 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as child-overweight-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/child-overweight

A Joint Malnutrition Estimate of UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, read from UNICEF's warehouse, which carries the model's estimates to four decimals where the JME's own workbook prints one.

• Charted

  Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
  • Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023