Health > Hunger and malnutrition Stats: compare key data on Jamaica & Nigeria

Children > Small children underweight: Percentage of all children under 5 that are moderately or severely underweight.
Undernourished population: Number of people in the country who subsist on less than the required nutritional amounts per day.
Undernourished population > Percentage: Percentage of population that subsists on less than the required nutritional amounts per day.
Undernourished population per million people: Number of people in the country who subsist on less than the required nutritional amounts per day. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
Underweight boys under 5: Prevalence of underweight children.
Underweight girls under 5: Prevalence of underweight children.

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STAT	Jamaica	Nigeria
Children > Small children underweight	2.2% Ranked 26th.	26.7% Ranked 2nd. 12 times more than Jamaica
Undernourished population	0.2 million Ranked 74th.	12.1 million Ranked 10th. 60 times more than Jamaica
Undernourished population > Percentage	8.6% Ranked 69th. 18% more than Nigeria	7.3% Ranked 78th.
Undernourished population per million people	0.0737 million Ranked 67th. 3% more than Nigeria	0.0717 million Ranked 68th.
Underweight boys under 5	4% Ranked 10th.	29% Ranked 8th. 7 times more than Jamaica
Underweight girls under 5	3% Ranked 12th.	28% Ranked 8th. 9 times more than Jamaica

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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