Ghana · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
12.0%2022
Publisher note: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2022. Accra, Ghana, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GSS 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 · 11 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1988 | 22.9 | 20.8 | 25.1 | Ghana demographic and health survey 1988. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ghana Statistical Service. Accra, Ghana, 1989 Reduced age range |
| Ghana | 1993 | 24.5 | 22.6 | 26.5 | Ghana demographic and health survey 1993. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: GSS and MI, 1994 Reduced age range |
| Ghana | 1997 | 22.2 | 20.4 | 24 | Ghana Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey 1997, First round |
| Ghana | 1998 | 20.1 | 18.5 | 21.9 | Ghana demographic and health survey 1998. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: GSS and MI, 1999 |
| Ghana | 2003 | 19 | 17.5 | 20.7 | Ghana demographic and health survey 2003. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: GSS, NMIMR, and ORC Macro, 2004 |
| Ghana | 2006 | 13.9 | 12.3 | 15.7 | Monitoring the situation of children, women and men. Ghana Multiple indicator cluster survey 2006. |
| Ghana | 2008 | 14.4 | 12.9 | 16 | Ghana demographic and health survey 2008. Demographic and Health Surveys. Accra, Ghana: GSS, GHS, and ICF Macro, 2009 |
| Ghana | 2011 | 13.4 | 12.2 | 14.6 | Ghana multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) with an enhanced malaria module and biomarker 2011: Final report. Accra, Ghana, 2012 Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Ghana | 2014 | 11.2 | 9.7 | 12.8 | Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2014. Rockville, Maryland, USA: GSS, GHS, and ICF International. |
| Ghana | 2017 | 12.6 | 11.4 | 13.8 | Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS2017/18), Survey Findings Report. Accra, Ghana: GSS |
| Ghana | 2022 | 12 | 10.7 | 13.4 | Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2022. Accra, Ghana, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GSS 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.