Undernourishment
Undernourished People (in the Human Development Area)
In this context, Undernourished People means:
people whose food intake is chronically insufficient to meet their minimum energy requirements.
Prevalence of Undernourishment (in the Human Development Area)
In this context, Prevalence of Undernourishment means:
percentage of the population whose dietary energy consumption is continuously below a minimum dietary energy requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity with an acceptable bodyweight for attained height.
Hierarchical Display of Undernourishment
Social Questions > Health > Nutrition > Food shortage
Economics > National accounts > Income > Distribution of income > Poverty
Undernourishment
Concept of Undernourishment
See the dictionary definition of Undernourishment.
Characteristics of Undernourishment
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Translation of Undernourishment
- Spanish: Desnutrición
- French: Sous-alimentation
- German: Unterernährung
- Italian: Sottoalimentazione
- Portuguese: Subalimentação
- Polish: Niedożywienie
Thesaurus of Undernourishment
Social Questions > Health > Nutrition > Food shortage > Undernourishment
Economics > National accounts > Income > Distribution of income > Poverty > Undernourishment