Algeria's prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) was 13.3% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.5 percentage points from 12.8% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 13.3% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 11.4% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 12.8% | 2014 |
| Highest | 15.6% | 2006 |
| Lowest | 11.4% | 2019 |
| Average since 2015 | 11.99% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 13.2% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Algeria's prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) rose 0.8 percentage points on 2023 (from 12.5% to 13.3%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.38 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.8 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.5 percentage points in 2012. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 17% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Algeria had the 13th highest value of the 163 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 13.3% | 2024 |
| World | 5.48% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 8.58% | 2024 |
Closest to Algeria in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Prevalence of overweight children is the percentage of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.
Limitations: Survey estimates come with levels of uncertainty due to both sampling error and non-sampling error (e.g., measurement technical error, recording error etc.,). The JME global estimates for overweight take into account estimates of sampling error around survey estimates. While non-sampling error cannot be accounted for or reviewed in full, when available, a data quality review of weight, height and age measurements from household surveys supports compilation of a time series that is comparable across countries and over time.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 25 values
| Year | Prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2021 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 11.5 |
| 2019 | 11.4 |
| 2018 | 11.5 |
| 2017 | 11.7 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2015 | 12.4 |
| 2014 |
Prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 4.4% (2024)
- Djibouti — 5.5% (2024)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 11.2% (2024)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 2.7% (2024)
- Iraq — 4.6% (2024)
- Jordan — 10.6% (2024)
- Kuwait — 10.1% (2024)
- Lebanon — 4.5% (2024)
- Libya
More health data for Algeria
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 9.49% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 9.51% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 6.95 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 29.9% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 7.24 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 29.95% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 14.2 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 29.93% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 10.52% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Algeria's prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5)?
- 13.3% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
- It is up 0.1 percentage points from 13.2% in 2000. The highest value was 15.6% in 2006 and the lowest 11.4% in 2019.
- How does Algeria rank?
- 13th highest of 163 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) unusual for Algeria?
- In 2024, Algeria's prevalence of overweight (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) rose 0.8 percentage points on 2023 (from 12.5% to 13.3%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.38 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.STA.OWGH.ME.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unice… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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