Cambodia · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)

16.3%2021

Publisher note: Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2021–22 Final Report. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: NIS, MoH, 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 independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
Country	Year	Reading	Lower endpoint	Upper endpoint	Publisher note
Cambodia	1996	42.6	40.8	44.4	Socio economic survey of Cambodia 1996: National Institute of Statistics. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1997
Cambodia	2000	39.7	37.7	41.7	Cambodia demographic and health survey 2000. Demographic and Health Surveys. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Calverton, Maryland, USA: National Institute of Statistics, Directorate General for Health, and ORC Macro, 2001
Cambodia	2005	28.3	26.5	30.1	Cambodia demographic and health survey 2005. Demographic and Health Surveys. Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Calverton, Maryland, USA: National Institute of Public Health, National Institute of Statistics and ORC Macro, 2006
Cambodia	2008	28.3	27	29.6	Cambodia anthropometrics survey 2008. Phnom Penh, Cambodia: National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and UNICEF Cambodia, 2009
Cambodia	2010	28.9	27	30.9	Cambodia demographic and health survey 2010. Demographic and Health Surveys. Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Calverton, Maryland, USA: National Institute of Statistics, Directorate General for Health, and ICF Macro, 2011
Cambodia	2014	24.1	22.4	25.9	Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2014. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: National Institute of Statistics, Directorate General for Health, and ICF International.
Cambodia	2021	16.3	14.9	17.8	Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2021–22 Final Report. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: NIS, MoH, and ICF.