Costa Rica - Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet)

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in Costa Rica was 56.30 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 32 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.00 in 1989 and a minimum value of 31.00 in 1994.

Definition: Percentage of children under age 5 with diarrhea in the two weeks preceding the survey who received oral rehydration salts (ORS packets or pre-packaged ORS fluids).

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

See also:

Year Value
1986 52.00
1987 78.00
1989 78.00
1994 31.00
2011 40.00
2018 56.30

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention