El Salvador - Prevalence of severe wasting

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5) in El Salvador was 0.200 as of 2014. Its highest value over the past 26 years was 0.400 in 1988, while its lowest value was 0.200 in 2008.

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
1988 0.400
1993 0.300
1998 0.300
2003 0.300
2008 0.200
2014 0.200

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) in El Salvador was 0.500 as of 2014. Its highest value over the past 26 years was 0.700 in 2008, while its lowest value was 0.300 in 2003.

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
1988 0.500
1993 0.600
1998 0.500
2003 0.300
2008 0.700
2014 0.500

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in El Salvador was 0.400 as of 2014. Its highest value over the past 26 years was 0.500 in 2008, while its lowest value was 0.300 in 2003.

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
1988 0.500
1993 0.500
1998 0.400
2003 0.300
2008 0.500
2014 0.400

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition