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Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2017

2017, 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, 2017 covers 158 countries on 3 measures. India is highest, at 28.086; Iceland is lowest, at 3.927. The middle country reads 10.315. Against 2016, 158 values changed (66 up, 92 down), the same countries are covered.

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Low Birthweight Prevalence · Data for 2017

HighestIndia

28.086

LowestIceland

3.927

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Low Birthweight Estimates).
derived
1IndiaINDSouthern Asia28.08626.39929.834
2ComorosCOMEastern Africa23.47120.12527.217
3BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia23.47021.22825.931
4PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia21.08917.91024.736
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa20.42918.41022.591
6NepalNPLSouthern Asia20.12518.33222.097
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa19.80817.40322.463
8Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia19.29516.86421.931
9MadagascarMDGEastern Africa19.04317.30020.886
10MauritiusMUSEastern Africa18.79113.26725.901
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa18.68116.20621.373
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa18.53316.65020.563
13Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia18.16915.54021.040
14JordanJORWestern Asia18.13416.65919.688
15Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia18.12916.28220.142
16SenegalSENWestern Africa17.98716.82019.239
17MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa17.84715.58720.325
18GuyanaGUYSouth America17.14815.23219.335
19BotswanaBWASouthern Africa16.96811.06825.243
20LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia16.94115.29318.807
21BeninBENWestern Africa16.83915.48118.283
22South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa16.62814.37619.124
23Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa16.36314.75518.100
24Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean16.23212.32721.186
25SurinameSURSouth America16.19215.14117.271

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. 1India28.086
  2. 2Comoros23.471
  3. 3Bangladesh23.470
  4. 4Philippines21.089
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau20.429

Lowest

  1. 158Iceland3.927
  2. 157Finland4.111
  3. 156Sweden4.157
  4. 155Estonia4.182
  5. 154San Marino4.207

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 10.315. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (95% credible interval)

    HighestIndia26.399

    LowestSan Marino3.523

    Middle country: 8.991

  • Upper bound (95% credible interval)

    HighestIndia29.834

    LowestIceland4.128

    Middle country: 11.651

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 66 · 92rose · 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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Low Birthweight Prevalence, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/low-birthweight/2017

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