Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female

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 months.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
159
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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    UNICEF

    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., UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology

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    World Health Organization

    World Health Organization (WHO), note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Bank (WB), note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

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Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Burundi20241.40percent
Ecuador20240percent
Lesotho20240.10percent
Mali20240.40percent
Azerbaijan20230.50percent
Belgium20230percent
Bhutan20231.80percent
Burundi20231.10percent
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the20231.30percent
Djibouti20231.10percent

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