Guatemala · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
14.4%2021
Publisher note: Informe de la Linea de Base de la Gran Cruzada Nacional por la Nutricion 2021/2022
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 · 8 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala | 1987 | 27.8 | 25.4 | 30.3 | Encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 1987. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ministerio de Salud Publica y Asistencia Social. Guatemala, Central America, 1989 Reduced age range |
| Guatemala | 1995 | 21.7 | 19.9 | 23.6 | Encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 1995. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 1996 |
| Guatemala | 1999 | 20.3 | 17.1 | 24 | Encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 1998-1999. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 1999 |
| Guatemala | 2000 | 18.8 | 17.4 | 20.2 | Guatemala Living Standards Measurement Survey 2000. Washington DC, United States: World Bank. |
| Guatemala | 2002 | 18.2 | 16.5 | 20 | Guatemala encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 2002. Ciudad de Guatemala, Republica de Guatemala: Oscar de Leon Palacios, 2003 |
| Guatemala | 2009 | 14.1 | 12.9 | 15.4 | Encuesta nacional de salud materno infantil 2008 (ENSMI-2008/09). Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala: Ministerio de Salud Pública, MSPAS, INE y CDC, 2010 |
| Guatemala | 2015 | 12.4 | 11.4 | 13.4 | Encuesta Nacional de Salud Materno Infantil 2014-2015. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 2015. |
| Guatemala | 2021 | 14.4 | Not reported | Not reported | Informe de la Linea de Base de la Gran Cruzada Nacional por la Nutricion 2021/2022 |
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.