Underweight children — all countries

Underweight children — Qatar

Underweight children in Qatar in 2023 — 2.3%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 22. Since 1995, the indicator has fallen by 2.5 pp.

2023 2.3% +0.2 pp vs 2022
World rank 3of 22
Period maximum 4.8%1995
Period minimum 2%2021

Trend over time

1995–2023 · % of children under 5

Underweight children — Qatar, 1995–2023234519951998200120042007201020132016201920221995: 4.8%2021: 2%2022: 2.1%2023: 2.3%
Change over the period: −2.5 pp Annual average: -0.09 pp

Comparison, 2023

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

Qatar 2.3%
World 12.4%
Underweight children — Qatar, by year Qatar All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 2.3 +0.2 pp
2022 2.1 +0.1 pp
2021 2
1995 4.8

Western Asia, 2023

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

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.