Madagascar vs Senegal: Share of children who are overweight or obese

Madagascar
2.3%
in 2024
Senegal
2.1%
in 2024
Madagascar rank
148th
Senegal rank
150th

Share of children who are overweight or obese over time

  • Madagascar
  • Senegal
0123200020122024

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 2.3% against 2.1% in Senegal, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Senegal's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Madagascar ahead.

Madagascar ranks 148th and Senegal ranks 150th of 163 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of children who are overweight or obese
Unit
%
Source
World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
163 places, 4,075 data points, 2000–2024
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Share of children under five years old that are defined as overweight or obese. A child is classified as overweight if their weight-for-height is more than two standard deviations from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards.