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Figure 1. Malnutrition and child mortality If a child is even mildly underweight, the mortality risk is increased. WHO estimates that malnutrition was associated with over half of all child deaths that occurred in developing countries in 1995.  Source: WHO, based on C.J.L. Murray and A.D. Lopez, The Global
Burden of Disease, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (USA) 1996 and 'Epidemiological evidence for a
potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality' in American Journal of Public Health
1993-83.
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