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

39.4%2010

Publisher note: Eritrea population and health survey 2010. Asmara, Eritrea: National Statistics Office and Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, 2013.

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
Eritrea	1993	36.9	Not reported	Not reported	Children and women in Eritrea: 1994. Government of the State of Eritrea/UNICEF Situation Analysis. Asmara, Eritrea, 1994 Converted estimate
Eritrea	1995	38.2	35.3	41.2	Eritrea demographic and health survey 1995. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: National Statistics Office and Macro International Inc, 1997 Reduced age range
Eritrea	2002	34.3	32.8	35.8	Eritrea demographic and health survey 2002. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: National Statistics amd Evaluation Office and ORC Macro, 2003
Eritrea	2010	39.4	37.7	41.1	Eritrea population and health survey 2010. Asmara, Eritrea: National Statistics Office and Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, 2013.