Bangladesh · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
21.7%2022
Publisher note: Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2022: Final Report. Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: NIPORT and ICF.
Unit: percent of children under age 5. Publisher measure: Underweight prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% weight-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates.
Weight-for-age below -2 SD, WHO country-level survey estimates, both sexes, no additional disaggregation; retain survey comments. Reference years are irregular survey labels; fieldwork windows were not supplied by the retained projection. Matching year labels do not prove matching collection periods.
Measurement basis: survey-based estimate; reference years are irregular.
Reference-period cadence: irregular survey reference years.
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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.
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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 27 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 1986 | 66.8 | Not reported | Not reported | Bangladesh household expenditure survey 1985-86. Bangladesh bureau of statistics. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1987 Converted estimate |
| Bangladesh | 1990 | 61.5 | Not reported | Not reported | Report of the child nutrition status survey 1989-90. Bangladesh bureau of statistics. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1991 Converted estimate |
| Bangladesh | 1991 | 61.2 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1991: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008 Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1992 | 60.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1992: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1993 | 56.1 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1993: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1994 | 58 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1994: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1995 | 55.2 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1995: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1996 | 54 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1996: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1997 | 53.6 | 51.7 | 55.4 | Bangladesh demographic and health survey 1996-97. Demographic and Health Surveys. National Institute for Population Research and Training. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1997 |
| Bangladesh | 1998 | 50.7 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1998: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 1999 | 49.5 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 1999: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 2000 | 42.4 | 40.9 | 43.9 | Bangladesh demographic and health survey 1999-2000 (DHS). Dhaka, Bangladesh and Calverton, Maryland: National Institute of Population Research and Training, Mitra and Associates, and ORC Macro, 2001 |
| Bangladesh | 2001 | 43.2 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 2001: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 2002 | 41 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 2002: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 2003 | 38.9 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 2003: data on rural national (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008. Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 2004 | 42.8 | 40.8 | 44.8 | Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2004. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dhaka, Bangladesh and Calverton, Maryland [USA]: NIPORT, Mitra and Associates, and ORC Macro, 2005 |
| Bangladesh | 2005 | 39.7 | Not reported | Not reported | Child and Mother Nutrition Survey of Bangladesh 2005 |
| Bangladesh | 2006 | 37.9 | Not reported | Not reported | Nutritional Surveillance Project 2006: data on rural national data (using the WHO Child Growth Standards). Unpublished estimates. Dhaka, Bangladesh: HKI and Institute of Public Health Nutrition, 2008 Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Bangladesh | 2007 | 41.3 | 39.7 | 42.9 | Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2007. DHS. Dhaka, Bangladesh and Calverton, Maryland, USA: National Institute of Population Research and Training, Mitra and Associates, and Macro International, 2009 |
| Bangladesh | 2011 | 36.7 | 35 | 38.3 | Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2011. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dhaka, Bangladesh and Calverton, Maryland, USA: NIPORT, Mitra and Associates, and ICF International, 2013 |
| Bangladesh | 2012 | 33 | Not reported | Not reported | State of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh: 2012. Dhaka, BD: HKI and BIGH |
| Bangladesh | 2013 | 31.9 | 31 | 32.9 | Bangladesh 2012-13 multiple indicator cluster survey. Final Report. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF Bangladesh, 2014. Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Bangladesh | 2014 | 32.8 | 31.1 | 34.7 | Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014. Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: NIPORT, Mitra and Associates, and ICF International. 2016 |
| Bangladesh | 2015 | 31 | Not reported | Not reported | State of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh 2015. Dhaka, Bangladesh: James P Grant School of Public Health and National Nutrition Services. |
| Bangladesh | 2018 | 21.9 | 20.7 | 23.2 | Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18. Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: NIPORT and ICF |
| Bangladesh | 2019 | 22.6 | 22 | 23.3 | Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019, Survey Findings Report. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) |
| Bangladesh | 2022 | 21.7 | 20.1 | 23.3 | Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2022: Final Report. Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: NIPORT and ICF. |
One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.