Bolivia - Prevalence of severe wasting

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5)

Definition: 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.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.

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Year Value
1998 0.600
2003 0.600
2008 0.400
2012 0.400
2016 0.700

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5)

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

Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.

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Year Value
1998 0.80
2003 0.70
2008 0.60
2012 0.60
2016 1.10

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Bolivia was 0.90 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 1.20 in 1994, while its lowest value was 0.50 in 1989.

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

Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.

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Year Value
1989 0.50
1994 1.20
1998 0.70
2003 0.60
2008 0.50
2012 0.50
2016 0.90

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition