Low-birthweight babies (% of births) (World Bank WDI)
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.SOC.WDI.SH_STA_BRTW_ZS.A · CC BY 4.0
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Per cent
- Date range 2000 – 2020
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Low-birthweight babies (% of births) (World Bank WDI)
- Read from
- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
- Source page
- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, SH.STA.BRTW.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): UNICEF-WHO Low birthweight estimates, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: data.unicef.org; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: data.unicef.org, note: UNICEF-WHO Low birthweight estimates Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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