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

12.5%2024

Publisher note: Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2023–24: Final Report. Maseru, Lesotho, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Ministry of Health 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
Lesotho	1992	13.8	Not reported	Not reported	National nutrition survey report, May-June 1992. Maseru, Kingdom of Lesotho, 1992 Converted estimate
Lesotho	1993	18.9	Not reported	Not reported	National survey on iodine, vitamin A and iron status of women and children in Lesotho. Maseru, Lesotho, 1994 Age-adjusted; Converted estimate
Lesotho	2004	16.6	14.7	18.6	Lesotho demographic and health survey 2004. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: MOH, BOS, and ORC Macro, 2005
Lesotho	2009	13.4	11.9	15.2	Lesotho demographic and health survey 2009. Demographic and Health Surveys. Maseru, Lesotho: MOHSW and ICF Macro, 2010
Lesotho	2014	10.5	9	12.3	Lesotho demographic and health survey (2014 LDHS): Key indicators. Demographic and Health Surveys. Maseru, Lesotho: Ministry of Health and ICF International, 2015
Lesotho	2018	10.5	9.2	11.9	Lesotho Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2018, Survey Findings Report. Maseru, Lesotho: Bureau of Statistics.
Lesotho	2024	12.5	10.2	15.3	Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2023–24: Final Report. Maseru, Lesotho, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Ministry of Health and ICF.