Mexico · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
4.2%2022
Publisher note: Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición Continua, Mexico 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 · 14 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1988 | 10.9 | 9.8 | 12.1 | Encuesta nacional de nutricion 1988. Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica. Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1990 |
| Mexico | 1989 | 9.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Encuesta nacional de alimentacion en el medio rural, 1989 (ENAL). Instituto de la Nutricion 'Salvador Zubiran'. Comision Nacional de Alimentacion. Division de Nutricion, INNSZ. Tlalpan, Mexico, D.F, 1990 Adjusted National-Rural to National |
| Mexico | 1996 | 10.3 | Not reported | Not reported | Encuesta nacional de alimentacion en el medio rural, 1996 (ENAL). Instituto de la Nutricion 'Salvador Zubiran'. Comision Nacional de Alimentacion. Division de Nutricion, INNSZ. Tlalpan, Mexico, D.F, 1998 Adjusted National-Rural to National; Converted estimate |
| Mexico | 1998 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 6.5 | Encuesta nacional de nutricion 1999. Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica. Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2000 |
| Mexico | 2002 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 5.6 | Mexico Family Life Survey (MFLS) 2002 |
| Mexico | 2005 | 6 | 4.8 | 7.5 | Encuesta Nacional sobre Niveles de Vida de los Hogares (ENNViH), MxFLS-2, 2005-2006 |
| Mexico | 2006 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 4.1 | Encuesta nacional de salud y nutrición 2006. Cuernavaca, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2006 |
| Mexico | 2012 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 3.3 | Encuesta nacional de salud y nutrición 2012. Resultados nacionales. Cuernavaca, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2012 |
| Mexico | 2015 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 4.8 | Encuesta Nacional de Niños, Niñas y Mujeres en México 2015 - Encuesta de Indicadores Múltiples por Conglomerados 2015, Resultados Principales, 2016 |
| Mexico | 2016 | 4.2 | 3 | 5.9 | Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición de Medio Camino ENSANUT MC 2016. Cuernavaca, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2016 |
| Mexico | 2019 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 6.2 | Encuesta nacional de salud y nutrición 2018. Cuernavaca, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2019 |
| Mexico | 2020 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 6 | Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición Continua COVID-19, Mexico 2020 |
| Mexico | 2021 | 4.2 | 3 | 5.8 | Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición Continua, Mexico 2021 |
| Mexico | 2022 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 5.8 | Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición Continua, Mexico 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.