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Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female

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

Latest, 20210%of children under 5Annual release · Not updated
vs 2015−0.1 pp0.1%
High since 19871.3% of children under 52000 · World Bank
Low since 19870% of children under 52021 · World Bank

Over time

1987 - 2021

Recent years

  1. 20210% of children under 5−0.1 pp
  2. 20150.1% of children under 5−0.1 pp
  3. 20090.2% of children under 5−0.5 pp
  4. 20020.7% of children under 5−0.6 pp
  5. 20001.3% of children under 5+0.3 pp
  6. 19991% of children under 5−0.1 pp
  7. 19951.1% of children under 5+0.6 pp
  8. 19870.5% of children under 5