Niger - Prevalence of wasting

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5) in Niger was 9.00 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 18.10 in 1992, while its lowest value was 8.20 in 2016.

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
1992 18.10
2000 14.40
2006 9.90
2007 11.10
2008 11.90
2009 11.20
2010 13.60
2011 10.70
2012 12.20
2013 10.80
2014 12.20
2015 11.30
2016 8.20
2018 11.50
2019 9.00

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) in Niger was 10.50 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 19.40 in 1992, while its lowest value was 10.50 in 2019.

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
1992 19.40
2000 17.80
2006 13.20
2007 13.90
2008 15.40
2009 13.60
2010 18.00
2011 14.40
2012 14.60
2013 14.10
2014 16.20
2015 15.70
2016 12.70
2018 16.80
2019 10.50

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Niger was 9.80 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 34 years was 25.30 in 1985, while its lowest value was 9.80 in 2019.

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
1985 25.30
1992 18.80
1998 19.80
2000 16.20
2006 11.60
2007 12.50
2008 13.80
2009 12.50
2010 15.80
2011 12.60
2012 13.40
2013 12.40
2014 14.20
2015 13.60
2016 10.40
2018 14.10
2019 9.80

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition