Underweight children — all countries

Underweight children — Kazakhstan

Underweight children in Kazakhstan in 2015 — 2%. Ranked 2 in the world out of 31. Since 1995, the indicator has fallen by 4.7 pp.

2015 2% −1.7 pp vs 2010
World rank 2of 31
Period maximum 6.7%1995
Period minimum 2%2015

Trend over time

1995–2015 · % of children under 5

Underweight children — Kazakhstan, 1995–201502468199519971999200120032005200720092011201320151995: 6.7%1999: 3.8%2006: 4.9%2010: 3.7%2015: 2%
Change over the period: −4.7 pp Annual average: -0.24 pp

Comparison, 2015

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan 2%
World 14.4%
Underweight children — Kazakhstan, by year Kazakhstan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 2
2010 3.7
2006 4.9
1999 3.8
1995 6.7

Central Asia, 2015

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

KZ Kazakhstan 2 TM Turkmenistan 3.2

About the indicator

The share of children under the age of five whose weight is more than two standard deviations below the median of the WHO growth standards. The indicator reflects a combination of chronic and acute undernutrition and remains one of the most accurate indicators of poverty: it depends little on the methodology of income accounting.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.