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Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2024; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Wasting is when a child is too thin for their height — acute undernutrition, the kind that hunger and illness cause within weeks. It is the form of malnutrition most likely to kill a child, and unlike stunting it can be reversed quickly with treatment.

Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation covers 163 countries. India is highest, at 18.7455; United States is lowest, at 0.1000. The middle country reads 3.5089. 29 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five · Latest available · compiled 2024

HighestIndia

18.7455

LowestUnited States

0.1000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation, as published. UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 163 countries · select a heading to sort

Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare201022.7407
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia · 2020 reading202018.7455
3YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2022 reading202216.8473
4SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading201416.3094
5MauritiusMUSEastern Africa · 1995 reading, too old to compare199515.7000
6EritreaERIEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare201014.5507
7SomaliaSOMEastern Africa · 2009 reading, too old to compare200914.3159
8Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia · 2010 reading, too old to compare201014.0576
9MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa · 2022 reading202213.6000
10DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2023 reading202312.1000
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa · 2021 reading202111.6000
12SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2010 reading, too old to compare201011.5476
13MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading202211.0000
14NigerNERWestern Africa · 2022 reading202210.8742
15BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2022 reading202210.7060
16LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading202310.7000
17SenegalSENWestern Africa · 2023 reading202310.1714
18CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading20219.6137
19Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2021 reading20219.3434
=20OmanOMNWestern Asia · 2017 reading20179.3000
=20Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2024 reading20249.3000
22MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia · 2017 reading20179.1487
23Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia · 2015 reading20158.4654
24IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading20238.3706
25Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading20208.2896

02In Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 2India18.7455
  2. 3Yemen16.8473
  3. 4Sudan16.3094
  4. 9Mauritania13.6000
  5. 10Djibouti12.1000

Lowest

  1. 163United States0.1000
  2. 161South Korea0.2000
  3. 160Chile0.3000
  4. 157Maltashared0.4000
  5. 157United Kingdomshared0.4000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.5089. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2024, from 1995 to 2024. 29 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • 153 distinct values among 163

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 9.3000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 163 countries has every column.

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UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates) (2024). Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/wasting/2024

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