United States - Prevalence of severe wasting

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5) in United States was 0.000 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 0.300 in 2006, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2002.

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
1991 0.100
2000 0.100
2002 0.000
2004 0.000
2006 0.300
2008 0.100
2010 0.000
2012 0.000
2014 0.000
2016 0.100
2018 0.000

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) in United States was 0.000 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 0.200 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2010.

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
1991 0.100
2000 0.200
2002 0.100
2004 0.100
2006 0.100
2008 0.100
2010 0.000
2012 0.000
2014 0.000
2016 0.000
2018 0.000

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

Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in United States was 0.000 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 0.200 in 2006, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2002.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1991 0.100
2000 0.100
2002 0.000
2004 0.000
2006 0.200
2008 0.100
2010 0.000
2012 0.000
2014 0.000
2016 0.100
2018 0.000

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition