Zambia · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
11.8%2018
Publisher note: Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2018. Lusaka, Zambia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Zambia Statistics Agency, 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 uncertainty · 7 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 1992 | 21.2 | 19.9 | 22.6 | Zambia demographic and health survey 1992. Demographic and Health Surveys. Central Statistical Office. Lusaka, Zambia, 1993 |
| Zambia | 1996 | 19.6 | 18.5 | 20.7 | Zambia demographic and health survey 1996. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: Central Statistical Office and Macro International Inc., 1997 |
| Zambia | 1999 | 19.6 | 18.2 | 21.1 | Zambia 1999 multiple indicator cluster survey report: Report on the monitoring of the end of decade goals. Lusaka, Zambia, 2000 Reduced age range |
| Zambia | 2002 | 23.2 | 21.8 | 24.7 | Zambia demographic and health survey 2001-2002. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: Central Statistical Office, Central Board of Health, and ORC Macro, 2003 |
| Zambia | 2007 | 14.9 | 13.8 | 16.1 | Zambia demographic and health survey 2007. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: CSO and Macro International Inc., 2009 |
| Zambia | 2013 | 14.9 | 14.1 | 15.7 | Zambia demographic and health Survey 2013-14. Demographic and Health Surveys. Rockville, Maryland, USA: Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Health, and ICF International, 2014. |
| Zambia | 2018 | 11.8 | 11 | 12.7 | Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2018. Lusaka, Zambia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: Zambia Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health, and ICF |
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.