Egypt vs Ghana: Malnutrition: Number of children who are underweight
Egypt
455,087 underweight children
in 2021
Ghana
504,537 underweight children
in 2022
Egypt rank
27th
Ghana rank
26th
Malnutrition: Number of children who are underweight over time
- Egypt
- Ghana
How they compare
Ghana currently reports 504,537 underweight children against 455,087 underweight children in Egypt, a difference of 49,450 underweight children.
That makes Ghana's figure about 1.1 times Egypt's.
Across all 6 years both countries report, Egypt has been ahead every year.
Egypt ranks 27th and Ghana ranks 26th of 96 countries.
Egypt has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | Ghana | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 923,370 underweight children | 598,866 underweight children | 324,504 underweight children | Egypt |
| 1990s | 878,832 underweight children | 617,898 underweight children | 260,934 underweight children | Egypt |
| 2000s | 783,088 underweight children | 572,070 underweight children | 211,018 underweight children | Egypt |
| 2010s | 880,332 underweight children | 455,653 underweight children | 424,679 underweight children | Egypt |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher malnutrition: number of children who are underweight, Egypt or Ghana?
- Ghana, at 504,537 underweight children against 455,087 underweight children in Egypt as of 2022.
- What is the difference in malnutrition: number of children who are underweight between Egypt and Ghana?
- 49,450 underweight children, with Ghana ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Ghana?
- 6 years are reported by both, from 1988 to 2014.
- How do Egypt and Ghana rank globally for malnutrition: number of children who are underweight?
- Egypt ranks 27th and Ghana ranks 26th of 96 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME) - UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank (2026); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Malnutrition: Number of children who are underweight. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Prevalence of underweight children is the percentage of children under age 5 whose weight for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. The data are based on the WHO's child growth standards released in 2006.