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Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, female

Prevalence of wasting, female, is the proportion of girls under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months.

Latest, 20210.6%of children under 5Annual release · Not updated
vs 2015+0.2 pp0.4%
High since 19873% of children under 51995 · World Bank
Low since 19870.4% of children under 52015 · World Bank

Over time

1987 - 2021

Recent years

  1. 20210.6% of children under 5+0.2 pp
  2. 20150.4% of children under 5−0.6 pp
  3. 20091% of children under 5−0.6 pp
  4. 20021.6% of children under 5−1.3 pp
  5. 20002.9% of children under 5+0.7 pp
  6. 19992.2% of children under 5−0.8 pp
  7. 19953% of children under 5+0.9 pp
  8. 19872.1% of children under 5