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Suite of Food Security Indicators: Percentage of children under 5 years affected by wasting (percent), Value

FAOSTAT domain FS. Suite of Food Security Indicators: Percentage of children under 5 years affected by wasting (percent), Value (%).

Coverage
160 of 251 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
160
Unit
%
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
fao-fs-21026-6121
Interva ID
fao-fs-21026-6121

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

1 step

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

33%

133 of 160 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 33% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 160 of the 251 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 4 observations; the earliest begins in 2000.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.

By country

Suite of Food Security Indicators: Percentage of children under 5 years affected by wasting (percent), Value for each of the 160 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Burundi20247.80%
Ecuador20240.70%
Lesotho20241.60%
Mali20245.40%
Sri Lanka20249.30%
Zimbabwe20245.10%
Azerbaijan20233.50%
Belarus20231.30%
Belgium20230.80%
Bhutan20235.10%

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as FAO declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    FAOSTAT domain FS; national questionnaires and FAO estimates, distinguished per figure by the publisher's flag

    declared by fao in domain

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

FAO (2026). Suite of Food Security Indicators: Percentage of children under 5 years affected by wasting (percent), Value. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/fao-fs-21026-6121 (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-fao-fs-21026-6121,
  title        = {Suite of Food Security Indicators: Percentage of children under 5 years affected by wasting (percent), Value},
  author       = {FAO},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/fao-fs-21026-6121}},
  note         = {Interva dataset fao-fs-21026-6121; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-08}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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