South Korea · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
0.0%2020
Publisher note: South Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2019-2021 Reduced age range
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 · 5 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | 2003 | 0.9 | Not reported | Not reported | Recent growth of children in the two Koreas: a meta-analysis. Economics and Human Biology 2009;7:109-12. |
| South Korea | 2011 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | South Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2010-2012 Reduced age range |
| South Korea | 2014 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.4 | South Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2013-2015 Reduced age range |
| South Korea | 2017 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.4 | South Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2016-2018 Reduced age range |
| South Korea | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | South Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2019-2021 Reduced age range |
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.