Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: wasting-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	163	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	163	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	23	0
Children under 5 who are wasted (%)wastingHeadline	The headline figure: Children under 5 who are wasted (%).	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.1000United States22.7407South Sudanmiddle 3.5462	153	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 163 countries.

Not in this dataset · 62 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustriaBahamasBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusDenmarkDominicaFaroe IslandsFranceFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyKosovoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates)

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five (surveys to 2024)

   .NT_ANT_WHZ_NE2

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: wasting-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/wasting

A Joint Malnutrition Estimate of UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, read from UNICEF's warehouse. Where a country has several surveys, UNICEF's own priority flag decides which is used.

• Charted

  Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Development & Human Capital

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
  • Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023