Macro Indicators · SH.STA.WAST.ZS
Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) data
Unweighted average of the 14 countries reporting in 2022
6.3Percentage
-11% on 2012. Country values run from 3.1 to 13.6 Percentage. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 53
- Years
- 2000–2024
- Observations
- 323
- Source
- World Bank WDI
Countries
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Years
2000 – 2024 · 25 years
Annual values by country, 2000 to 2024
World Bank WDI · Percentage · hover or use the arrow keys to read a year
- Burkina Faso
- Mali
- Niger
3 countries · 25 years · 323 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in Percentage
| Country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso BF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11.3 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 10.2 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 9.3 | — | — | — |
| Mali ML | — | 12.6 | — | — | — | — | 15.4 | — | — | — | 8.9 | 10.4 | — | — | 13.1 | 13.5 | 10.6 | 10.5 | 9 | 13 | 7.2 | 9.3 | 10.6 | — | 5.4 |
| Niger NE | 16.2 | — | — | — | — | — | 11.6 | 12.5 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 15.8 | 12.4 | 13.4 | 12.4 | 14.2 | 13.6 | 10.4 | — | 14.1 | 9.8 | 12 | 11.5 | 10.9 | — | — |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- SH.STA.WAST.ZS
- Unit
- Percentage
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- Macro Indicators
Values as published by World Bank WDI: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at data.worldbank.org.
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