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Angola | |
Benin | |
Botswana | |
Burkina Faso | |
Burundi | |
Cameroon | |
Cape Verde | |
Central African Republic | |
Chad | |
Comoros | |
Congo | |
Côte d’Ivoire | |
Djibouti | |
DRC | |
Egypt | |
Equatorial Guinea | |
Eritrea | |
Eswatini | |
Ethiopia | |
Gabon | |
Gambia | |
Ghana | |
Guinea | |
Guinea-Bissau | |
Kenya | |
Lesotho | |
Liberia | |
Libya | |
Madagascar | |
Malawi | |
Mali | |
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Mauritius | |
Morocco | |
Mozambique | |
Namibia | |
Niger | |
Nigeria | |
Rwanda | |
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São Tomé and Príncipe | |
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Sierra Leone | |
Somalia | |
South Africa | |
South Sudan | |
Sudan | |
Tanzania | |
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Tunisia | |
Uganda | |
Zambia | |
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Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health | |
Life expectancy at birth | |
Maternal mortality ratio | |
Stillbirth rate | |
Neonatal mortality rate | |
Infant mortality rate | |
Under 5 mortality rate | |
Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits | |
Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits | |
Births attended by skilled health personnel | |
Postpartum care coverage for mothers | |
Postnatal care coverage for newborns | |
Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months | |
Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination | |
Stunting - short height for age under age 5 | |
Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 | |
Overweight - heavy for height under 5 | |
Sexual and Reproductive Health | |
Child marriage before age 15 | |
Child marriage before age 18 | |
Female genital mutilation | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - female | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - male | |
Very early child bearing under age 16 | |
Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 | |
Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women | |
Demand satisfied for modern contraception | |
Communicable Diseases | |
New HIV infections | |
Antiretroviral treatment coverage | |
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV | |
Condom use | |
New TB infections | |
New malaria infections | |
Non-Communicable Diseases | |
Mortality from non-communicable diseases | |
Suicide mortality rate | |
Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over | |
Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over | |
Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over | |
Health Financing | |
External health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % GDP | |
Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure | |
Government health expenditure per capita | |
Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure | |
Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health | |
Health systems and policies | |
Density of health workers - physicians | |
Density of health workers - nurses and midwives | |
Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff | |
Qualified obstetricians | |
Birth registration | |
At least basic drinking water | |
At least basic sanitation services | |
Open defecation | |
Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
Full Name: | Prevalence of wasting (weight for height less than two standard deviations from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under five years of age |
Full Unit: | Percentage, % |
Year-range of Data: | 1994 - 2018 |
Source: | UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group |
Link to Source: | https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/ |
Date Source Published: | 1st April 2019 |
Date Source Accessed: | 5th September 2019 |
Target Source: | WHO |
Link to Target: | https://www.who.int/elena/global-targets/en/ |
The following countries had no data: |
The target is taken from the target source as shown in the table on the left. This is the internationally agreed target for this indicator and country. Most targets are the same for all countries, but some may have different values for each country. Some indicators have no internationally agreed targets. The threshold is taken from the same source where available. The threshold is an easier value than the target but shows good progress in achieving the target. For more details, go to ‘Find out more about indicator and sources’ via the Indicators page. |
This is the prevalence of wasting (weight for height less than two standard deviations from the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards median) for children less than five years of age. It includes the proportion of under-fives falling below minus 2 standard deviations (moderate and severe) and minus 3 standard deviations (severe) from the median weight-for-height of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards among children under 5 years of age.
Child growth is an internationally accepted outcome, which reflects the nutritional status of a child. It is the most widely used indicator of nutritional status in a community. Child wasting refers to a child who is too thin for their height as a result of recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted has an increased risk of dying. Treatment, however, is possible. The WHO global nutrition targets 2025 include target 6: to reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5%.
For the majority of countries, the data sources are household surveys that are nationally representative. A limited number of countries use data from surveillance systems if the population coverage that is documented is sufficient (around 80%). For both data sources, the child’s height and weight measurements must be collected following standard measuring techniques recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Together, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank group review new data sources to update country-level estimates. Each agency uses their existing mechanisms for capturing data.
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More about indicator and sources
This is one of the World Health Assembly nutrition target indicators. It is also an indicator for monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 2: Target 2.2: by 2030 end all forms of malnutrition. This indicator is also part of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030). The internationally agreed target to reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5% by 2025.
See here for more information:
http://www.who.int/nutrition/global-target-2025/en/
In the UNICEF data base, two data points provided for Rwanda for the year 2015: 2.3% (DHS, shown in this platform) and 2.0% (Rwanda 2015 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis).
More information on calculations
Prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting among children under-five estimates are calculated by comparing actual measurements to the WHO Child Growth standards (an international standard reference population). The standards, released in April 2006 by the World Health Organization, replaced the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO reference population. The new standards confirm that children born anywhere in the world and given the optimum start in life have the potential to reach the same range of height and weight. It states that differences in the growth of a child up to the age of five is more influenced by nutrition, feeding practices, environment and health care than by genetics or ethnicity.
For more information, see “Notes on the Data”: https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/