Malaysia · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
15.3%2022
Publisher note: Malaysia National Health and Morbidity Survey 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 · 12 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1990 | 22.1 | Not reported | Not reported | Family Health Information System. Information and Documentation Unit. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1990 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 1991 | 23.1 | Not reported | Not reported | Family Health Information System. Information and Documentation Unit. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1991 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 1992 | 22.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Family Health Information System. Information and Documentation Unit. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1992 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 1993 | 20.5 | Not reported | Not reported | Family Health Information System. Information and Documentation Unit. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1993 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 1994 | 19.7 | Not reported | Not reported | Family Health Information System. Information and Documentation Unit. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1994 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 1995 | 17.7 | Not reported | Not reported | Family Health Information System. Information and Documentation Unit. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1995 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 1999 | 16.7 | Not reported | Not reported | A study of malnutrition in under five children in Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Ministry of Health, 2000 Converted estimate |
| Malaysia | 2006 | 12.7 | 11.8 | 13.6 | Malaysia National Health And Morbidity Survey 2006. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Institute for Public Health, Ministry of Health (Malaysia) Age calculated using alternate methods |
| Malaysia | 2015 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 14.1 | National Health and Morbidity Survey 2015 (NHMS 2015), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: IPH, 2015. |
| Malaysia | 2016 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 15.1 | Malaysia National Health and Morbidity Survey 2016 |
| Malaysia | 2019 | 14.8 | 12.1 | 17.9 | Malaysia National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019 |
| Malaysia | 2022 | 15.3 | 14.4 | 16.3 | Malaysia National Health and Morbidity Survey 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.