Malnutrition, Weight For Age (% Of Children Under 5)

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 new child growth standards released in 2006.

HOW TO JOIN WITH METADATA

• Concepts (labels/units)
– Use the concept id malnutrition_weight_for_age_percent_of_children_under_5 to look up labels and units in @gapminder.metadata.concepts.
SELECT * FROM @gapminder.metadata.concepts WHERE concept = 'malnutrition_weight_for_age_percent_of_children_under_5'.

• Countries and names
– Join your datapoints on geo to @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_country to get readable country/area names
(e.g., name) and membership attributes such as world_4region, income_groups.

• Regions and other group labels
– After you have a region code from the country table (e.g., world_4region),
you can join to:
· @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_world_4region on world_4region → region names/colors/shapes
· @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_world_6region on world_6region → region names
· @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_income_groups on income_groups → income group names

Example:
SELECT d.time,
c.name AS country,
d.malnutrition_weight_for_age_percent_of_children_under_5 AS value
FROM @gapminder.malnutrition_weight_for_age_percent_of_children_under_5.malnutrition_weight_for_age_percent_of_children_under_5_by_geo_time d
LEFT JOIN @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_country c ON d.geo = c.country;