Prevalence of underweight children vs. share in extreme poverty, 2022
Underweight children are those less than 5 years old, whose weight for age is more than two standard deviationsbelow the median for the international reference population. Extreme poverty is defined as living below theInternational Poverty Line of $2.15 per day.
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