Vietnam - 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 Vietnam was 3.90 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 10.50 in 2004, while its lowest value was 3.90 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
1993 5.90
1999 9.90
2000 5.10
2002 8.30
2003 10.20
2004 10.50
2005 10.00
2006 9.30
2007 9.30
2008 9.10
2009 7.30
2010 3.90

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) in Vietnam was 4.30 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 12.00 in 1999, while its lowest value was 4.30 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
1993 7.50
1999 12.00
2000 7.10
2002 9.50
2003 11.50
2004 11.90
2005 11.30
2006 10.50
2007 10.80
2008 10.20
2009 6.90
2010 4.30

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

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Vietnam was 5.80 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 13.50 in 1994, while its lowest value was 4.10 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
1988 11.10
1993 6.70
1994 13.50
1998 11.90
1999 11.00
2000 6.10
2002 8.90
2003 10.90
2004 11.30
2005 10.70
2006 9.90
2007 10.10
2008 9.70
2009 7.10
2010 4.10
2011 6.60
2012 6.70
2013 6.60
2014 6.80
2015 6.40
2017 5.80

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition