United States - 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 United States was 0.00 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 1.10 in 2006, while its lowest value was 0.00 in 2010.

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
1991 0.40
2000 0.10
2002 0.10
2004 0.90
2006 1.10
2008 0.40
2010 0.00
2012 0.50
2014 0.00
2016 0.10
2018 0.00

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) in United States was 0.200 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 0.900 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.200 in 2010.

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
1991 0.600
2000 0.900
2002 0.500
2004 0.600
2006 0.600
2008 0.800
2010 0.200
2012 0.200
2014 0.600
2016 0.700
2018 0.200

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in United States was 0.100 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 0.900 in 2006, while its lowest value was 0.100 in 2010.

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
1991 0.500
2000 0.500
2002 0.300
2004 0.700
2006 0.900
2008 0.600
2010 0.100
2012 0.300
2014 0.300
2016 0.400
2018 0.100

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition