Colombia - 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
1995 0.600
2000 0.300
2005 0.400
2010 0.200
2016 0.500

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
1995 0.500
2000 0.400
2005 0.400
2010 0.200
2016 0.300

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Colombia was 0.400 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 0.500 in 1995, while its lowest value was 0.200 in 2010.

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
1986 0.300
1995 0.500
2000 0.400
2005 0.400
2010 0.200
2016 0.400

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition