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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 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. A higher value is the worse result.

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

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • 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.

  • The position is ours

    UNICEF publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 163 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

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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06Questions

Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child wasting in Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation?

India, at 18.7455, of the 163 countries in the file.

How many countries does Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation cover?

163.

Where can I download Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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