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Figure 61
Timely Complementary Feeding Practice at 6 months

Source: State Health Department, 2017

NUTRITIONAL STATUS FOR CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS IN MALAYSIA
The Ministry of Health Malaysia monitors the nutritional status of children under five years old through
the National Nutrition Surveillance System (NSS) under the Health Management Information System.
Figure 62 shown us the nutritional status of children below five years old from 2010 until 2017. There
is a slight increase of the nutritional status of under five children for 2017 compared to 2016, 97.4 per
cent of the children are in the normal weight classification, while for severe and moderate underweight
showed a decline compared to 2016 to 0.29 per cent and 1.92 per cent and the percentage of overweight
children in 2017 is 0.4 per cent same as 2016.

Figure 62
Nutritional Status of Children Under 5 Years in Malaysia, 2010 to 2017

100

Percentage(%) 10

1

0.1
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Severe Underweight 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.29
Moderate Underweight 4.3 3.8 3.2 2.7 2.5 2.2 2.2 1.92
Normal Weight 94.6 94.9 95.9 96.6 96.8 97.1 97.1 97.4
Over Weight 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.5 1.5 0.4 0.4 0.4

Source: Health Informatics Centre, 2017

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