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

5.2%2023

Publisher note: Tajikistan Demographic and Health Survey 2023. Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Agency on Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan 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
Tajikistan	2005	14.9	13.3	16.6	Tajikistan multiple indicator cluster survey 2005, Final Report. Dushanbe, Tajikistan: State Committee on Statistics of the Republic of Tajikistan, 2007
Tajikistan	2007	15.1	13.4	16.9	Tajikistan living standards measurement survey 2007 (TLSS): Indicators at a glance. Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan: State Committee on Statistics and UNICEF, 2009 Oedema data was not considered in the analysis
Tajikistan	2009	8.3	7.1	9.8	Micronutrient status survey in Tajikistan, 2009. Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan: Ministry of Health and UNICEF, 2010 Reduced age range
Tajikistan	2012	13.3	11.8	14.9	Tajikistan demographic and health survey 2012. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Calverton, Maryland, USA: SA, MOH, and ICF International, 2013
Tajikistan	2016	6.4	5.2	7.9	National Micronutrient Status Survey in Tajikistan 2016
Tajikistan	2017	7.6	6.7	8.6	Tajikistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017. Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Statistical Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan (SA)
Tajikistan	2023	5.2	Not reported	Not reported	Tajikistan Demographic and Health Survey 2023. Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Agency on Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and ICF.