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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017

2017, as UNICEF’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017 covers 163 countries on 5 measures. Australia is highest, at 18.3977; Niger is lowest, at 0.7661. The middle country reads 5.4581. Against 2016, 163 values changed (80 up, 83 down), the same countries are covered.

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Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five · Data for 2017

HighestAustralia

18.3977

LowestNiger

0.7661

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.397717.282319.453214.394623.2122
2Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean16.957115.930617.969311.831223.7067
3TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa16.261815.248717.217513.465619.5079
4AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe16.146615.125717.081412.893620.0317
5Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia16.049815.041816.989010.098224.5513
6UkraineUKREastern Europe15.572914.593016.49366.085034.4309
7GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.930213.039114.77256.235928.2572
8LibyaLBYNorthern Africa13.909113.020714.752011.575716.6245
9Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe13.856912.965114.69029.527119.7255
10Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean13.410712.555514.23528.881619.7488
11South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa13.313012.464514.134111.403515.4864
12TongaTONPolynesia13.293212.438114.104510.898116.1196
13ArmeniaARMWestern Asia12.851611.996213.612110.072716.2586
14BarbadosBRBCaribbean12.812911.991513.60758.550318.7646
15ParaguayPRYSouth America12.693311.873713.476310.112215.8172
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa12.443311.637413.212910.517414.6642
17SyriaSYRWestern Asia12.105111.316712.85507.663918.6015
18AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa11.708010.945312.44039.727514.0291
19ArgentinaARGSouth America11.588510.827812.30899.284514.3737
20PanamaPANCentral America11.442210.690412.15529.195414.1523
21CanadaCANNorthern America11.399410.651612.11205.040523.7721
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe11.291510.554812.00379.406313.4982
23MontenegroMNESouthern Europe11.082010.341111.76438.958813.6330
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe10.925510.205611.61286.976616.7081
25Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia10.918710.192611.59809.734112.2280

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Australia18.3977
  2. 2Turks and Caicos Islands16.9571
  3. 3Tunisia16.2618
  4. 4Albania16.1466
  5. 5Papua New Guinea16.0498

Lowest

  1. 163Niger0.7661
  2. 162Mali1.0426
  3. 161Myanmar1.0842
  4. 160Djibouti1.0863
  5. 159Sri Lanka1.1373

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.4581. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Girls (%)

    HighestAustralia17.2823

    LowestNiger0.7102

    Middle country: 5.0713

  • Boys (%)

    HighestAustralia19.4532

    LowestNiger0.8202

    Middle country: 5.8165

  • Lower bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestAustralia14.3946

    LowestNiger0.6935

    Middle country: 3.9634

  • Upper bound (JME uncertainty interval)

    HighestUkraine34.4309

    LowestNiger0.8461

    Middle country: 7.5150

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 80 · 83rose · 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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-overweight/2017

0625 held

Other years

07Questions

Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child overweight in Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017?

Australia, at 18.3977, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017 cover?

163.

Where can I download Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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