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Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months

Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2024 compilation · 113 countries

This is the share of children aged 6 to 23 months who ate from no more than two of eight food groups the previous day — what UNICEF calls severe child food poverty. A child fed this narrowly, often on little more than a starchy staple or milk, is far more likely to become malnourished.

This site holds one edition, Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2024 compilation, read from UNICEF’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2024 compilation
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1 edition · 113 rows
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CC BY 3.0 IGO

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2024 compilation113—October 3, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: severe-child-food-poverty-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1130
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1130
Survey yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—140
Children aged 6-23 months fed from at most 2 of 8 food groups (%)severe_child_food_povertyHeadlineThe headline figure: Children aged 6-23 months fed from at most 2 of 8 food groups (%).Number · up to 4 decimals1.169Belarus63.081Somaliamiddle 21.2551130
UNICEF observation statusobservation_statusFlagWhether UNICEF re-analysed the survey's own data for this reading or took the figure from the survey's published report, in UNICEF's words.Text—30

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.

03113 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, by continent.
2024
Africa44
Americas21
Asia33
Europe6
Oceania9
All113

One edition, covering 113 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNICEF

  2. 2 · Their file

    Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months (surveys to 2024)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    October 3, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 4 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

From UNICEF's Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Databases, read from UNICEF's own data warehouse, which carries more decimal places than UNICEF's published workbooks. Each reading is marked as re-analysed by UNICEF or as reported by the survey itself.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 3, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UNICEF, Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNICEF. Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/severe-child-food-poverty

The publisher’s own citation: UNICEF. Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Databases, December 2025. New York: UNICEF.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

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07Questions

Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months: questions and answers

What is the Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months?

This is the share of children aged 6 to 23 months who ate from no more than two of eight food groups the previous day — what UNICEF calls severe child food poverty. A child fed this narrowly, often on little more than a starchy staple or milk, is far more likely to become malnourished.

Which editions of the Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months can I download?

One: Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2024 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does UNICEF rank countries on it?

No. UNICEF publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNICEF. The licence text is linked on this page.

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