Guinea-Bissau - Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet)

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in Guinea-Bissau was 35.10 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.00 in 2000 and a minimum value of 1.00 in 1986.

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 1.00
1987 1.00
1989 5.00
2000 39.00
2006 23.40
2010 18.70
2014 35.10

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention