India - Prevalence of wasting

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.

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Year Value
2006 19.20
2014 14.50
2015 19.80
2017 16.30

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.

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Year Value
2006 20.80
2014 15.60
2015 21.70
2017 18.30

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in India was 17.30 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 20.80 in 2015, while its lowest value was 15.10 in 2014.

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.

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Year Value
1989 20.30
1991 20.00
1992 19.90
1997 18.40
1999 17.10
2006 20.00
2014 15.10
2015 20.80
2017 17.30

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition