Dominican Republic Hunger and malnutrition Stats
Definitions
- Children > Small children severely underweight: Percentage of all children under 5 that are severely underweight.
- 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.
SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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
