Bangladesh - Child obesity

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height, female (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height, female (% of children under 5) in Bangladesh was 2.30 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 22 years was 2.60 in 1997, while its lowest value was 0.80 in 2000.

Definition: Prevalence of overweight, female, is the percentage of girls under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's new child growth standards released in 2006.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.

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1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
Year Value
1997 2.60
2000 0.80
2004 1.10
2007 1.00
2011 2.10
2013 2.00
2014 1.50
2018 1.80
2019 2.30

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height, male (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) in Bangladesh was 2.60 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 22 years was 3.00 in 2013, while its lowest value was 0.80 in 2004.

Definition: Prevalence of overweight, male, is the percentage of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's new child growth standards released in 2006.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.

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1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
3.50
Year Value
1997 2.10
2000 1.00
2004 0.80
2007 1.20
2011 1.70
2013 3.00
2014 1.60
2018 2.60
2019 2.60

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of overweight, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Bangladesh was 2.40 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 33 years was 2.60 in 2013, while its lowest value was 0.20 in 1986.

Definition: Prevalence of overweight children is the percentage of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's new child growth standards released in 2006.

Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.

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1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
Year Value
1986 0.20
1990 0.60
1991 0.30
1992 0.20
1993 0.40
1994 0.20
1995 0.20
1996 0.30
1997 2.40
1998 0.20
1999 0.60
2000 0.90
2001 0.90
2002 1.00
2003 1.00
2004 0.90
2005 1.00
2006 0.80
2007 1.10
2011 1.90
2013 2.60
2014 1.60
2018 2.20
2019 2.40

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition