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The point I'm making is that we don't see people dying from malnutrition because they generally end up in hospital rather than dying. However, I also just saw that the article I linked excludes children below the age of 18.

This article is not free to access but focuses on children: https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(22)00315-X/abs...

It found around 6.4% of child hospital admissions were diagnosed with malnutrition in 2019.

This other article says there were around 1.6 million child hospital admissions in 2019, suggesting around 100k cases of malnutrition in hospital admissions: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10616761/

Some of that will be due to newborn feeding difficulties, e.g. babies with tongue-tie or a challenging latch. But most parents will usually find a way to feed their baby before it gets to the hospitalisation stage.