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Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2011

2011, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates)’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Low birthweight is the share of babies born weighing less than 2,500 grams. It reflects the health and nutrition of mothers during pregnancy, and it is one of the strongest predictors of whether a newborn survives its first month.

Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2011 covers 158 countries on 3 measures. India is highest, at 29.7436; Iceland is lowest, at 3.7886. The middle country reads 10.5800. Against 2010, 158 values changed (77 up, 81 down), the same countries are covered.

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Low Birthweight Prevalence · Data for 2011

HighestIndia

29.7436

LowestIceland

3.7886

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2011, as published. UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates) ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 158 countries · select a heading to sort

Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2011: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates).
derived
1IndiaINDSouthern Asia29.743628.21531.331
2BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia24.393121.50327.594
3ComorosCOMEastern Africa24.244621.46427.324
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa21.995220.36923.721
5PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia21.165918.84223.676
6NepalNPLSouthern Asia21.080419.36822.986
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa19.696917.00922.728
8MadagascarMDGEastern Africa19.543418.15021.013
9SenegalSENWestern Africa19.285918.36620.236
10MauritiusMUSEastern Africa19.227713.78025.978
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa19.209017.79920.698
12Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa19.167017.44621.004
13Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia18.926016.39621.663
14Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia18.550616.73120.542
15MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa18.223816.65819.869
16BeninBENWestern Africa17.594816.61918.616
17BotswanaBWASouthern Africa17.444511.42925.919
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia17.238915.56119.055
19GuyanaGUYSouth America16.935815.41618.571
20JordanJORWestern Asia16.728115.76717.743
21Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia16.723614.39219.312
22South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa16.661814.38119.222
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa16.305214.90817.806
24NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa15.995814.63617.455
25Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean15.826412.28220.194

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1India29.7436
  2. 2Bangladesh24.3931
  3. 3Comoros24.2446
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau21.9952
  5. 5Philippines21.1659

Lowest

  1. 158Iceland3.7886
  2. 157San Marino4.0357
  3. 156Finland4.1270
  4. 155Sweden4.2278
  5. 154Estonia4.4669

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 10.5800. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (95% credible interval)

    HighestIndia28.215

    LowestSan Marino3.437

    Middle country: 9.283

  • Upper bound (95% credible interval)

    HighestIndia31.331

    LowestIceland3.926

    Middle country: 11.506

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 77 · 81rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2023 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates)’s 2023 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2011.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 158 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates) (2011). Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/low-birthweight/2011

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