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

Definition: 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.

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.

Year	Value
2008	0.200
2013	0.300
2014	0.200

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

Definition: Prevalence of wasting, male,is the proportion of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two 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.

Year	Value
2008	0.300
2013	0.300
2014	0.300

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Chile was 0.300 as of 2014. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 0.700 in 1986, while its lowest value was 0.300 in 2007.

Definition: Prevalence of wasting is the proportion of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two 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.

Year	Value
1986	0.700
1994	0.500
1995	0.500
1996	0.500
1998	0.600
1999	0.500
2001	0.500
2002	0.500
2003	0.500
2004	0.500
2006	0.500
2007	0.300
2008	0.300
2013	0.300
2014	0.300

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Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition