Low Birthweight Prevalence

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

Every column in the newest file of Low Birthweight Prevalence: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2020	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	158	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	158	0
Live births weighing under 2,500 g (%)low_birthweightHeadline	The headline figure: Live births weighing under 2,500 g (%).	Number · up to 9 decimals	3.9928Iceland27.4353Indiamiddle 10.2123	158	0
Lower bound (95% credible interval)lowerwhiskerMeasure	Lower end of the 95% credible interval around the estimate, in percent of live births.	Number · up to 9 decimals	3.490San Marino25.448Indiamiddle 8.743	158	0
Upper bound (95% credible interval)upperwhiskerMeasure	Upper end of the 95% credible interval around the estimate, in percent of live births.	Number · up to 9 decimals	4.191Finland29.545Indiamiddle 11.722	158	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 21 years.

The same 158 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 67 places this site covers

UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates) 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.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAnguillaArubaBarbadosBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCabo VerdeCayman IslandsChadChannel IslandsCuraçaoCyprusDjiboutiDominicaEgyptEquatorial GuineaEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuineaHaitiHong KongIranIsle of ManKosovoLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMaliMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNigerNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPakistanPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSaudi ArabiaSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSyriaTaiwanTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates)

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   UNICEF-WHO Low Birthweight Estimates, 2023 edition — 2020

   UNICEF-WHO-LBW-estimates-2023.xlsx

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

   21 files, one per year

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

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/low-birthweight

From the UNICEF-WHO Joint Low Birthweight Estimates, read from the producers' own workbook, which carries the estimates in full where UNICEF's data warehouse trims them to four decimals.

• Charted

  Low Birthweight Prevalence by country

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

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Development & Human Capital

• 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