Jordan · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
2.5%2023
Publisher note: Jordan Population and Family and Health Survey 2023. Amman, Jordan, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: DoS 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 · 7 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan | 1990 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 5.8 | Jordan population and family health survey 1990. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ministry of Health. Amman, Jordan, 1992 |
| Jordan | 1997 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.5 | Jordan population and family health survey 1997. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: DOS and MI, 1998 |
| Jordan | 2002 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | Jordan population and family health survey 2002. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: Department of Statistics and ORC Macro, 2003 |
| Jordan | 2009 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.5 | Jordan population and family health survey 2009. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: Department of Statistics and ICF Macro, 2010 |
| Jordan | 2012 | 3 | 2.3 | 3.9 | Jordan population and family health survey 2012. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: Department of Statistics and ICF International, 2013 |
| Jordan | 2019 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 4.7 | Jordan National Micronutrient and Nutritional Survey 2019. Amman, Jordan; 2021. Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Jordan | 2023 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 3.3 | Jordan Population and Family and Health Survey 2023. Amman, Jordan, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: DoS 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.