Arab Region | Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5 (Arab countries,1990–2022)
Prevalence of severe wasting is the proportion of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.
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Arab Development Portal
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Arab Region
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Arab Region | Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5 (Arab countries,1990–2022)
| Year | Location |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Palestine | 0.9 |
| 2000 | Palestine | 0.7 |
| 2002 | Palestine | 0.7 |
| 2006 | Palestine | 0.7 |
| 2010 | Palestine | 1 |
| 2014 | Palestine | 0.3 |
| 2020 | Palestine | 0.6 |
| 1991 | Yemen | 5.4 |
| 1997 | Yemen | 6.8 |
| 2003 | Yemen | 6.4 |
| 2005 | Yemen | 4.4 |
| 2011 | Yemen | 3.4 |
| 2013 | Yemen | 5.4 |
| 2004 | Saudi Arabia | 4.5 |
| 2015 | Saudi Arabia | 1.4 |
| 2016 | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| 2017 | Saudi Arabia | 1.8 |
| 2018 | Saudi Arabia | 1.1 |
| 2020 | Saudi Arabia | 1.3 |
| 2006 | Somalia | 4.4 |
| 2009 | Somalia | 4.3 |
| 2006 | Sudan | 5.7 |
| 2010 | Sudan | 4.1 |
| 2014 | Sudan | 4.5 |
| 1993 | Syria | 4.5 |
| 2006 | Syria | 4.8 |
| 2006 | Tunisia | 1.2 |
| 2012 | Tunisia | 1.7 |
| 2018 | Tunisia | 0.9 |
| 1995 | Libya | 1.5 |
| 2007 | Libya | 2.9 |
| 2014 | Libya | 5.3 |
| 2000 | Mauritania | 7.2 |
| 2007 | Mauritania | 3.8 |
| 2011 | Mauritania | 4 |
| 2012 | Mauritania | 1.9 |
| 2018 | Mauritania | 2.3 |
| 2019 | Mauritania | 1.8 |
| 2020 | Mauritania | 1 |
| 2021 | Mauritania | 1.7 |
| 2022 | Mauritania | 2.6 |
| 1997 | Morocco | 2 |
| 2003 | Morocco | 5 |
| 2011 | Morocco | 1 |
| 2017 | Morocco | 1.1 |
| 2019 | Morocco | 0.4 |
| 1994 | Oman | 0.9 |
| 1999 | Oman | 1.3 |
| 2009 | Oman | 0.8 |
| 2014 | Oman | 2.4 |
| 2017 | Oman | 3.1 |
| 1992 | Algeria | 3 |
| 1995 | Algeria | 4.2 |
| 2000 | Algeria | 1.1 |
| 2002 | Algeria | 5 |
| 2006 | Algeria | 1.7 |
| 2012 | Algeria | 1.4 |
| 2019 | Algeria | 1.3 |
| 1996 | Comoros | 3.7 |
| 2000 | Comoros | 7.2 |
| 2012 | Comoros | 4.5 |
| 2013 | Djibouti | 3.4 |
| 2019 | Djibouti | 2.7 |
| 1991 | Egypt | 2.3 |
| 1992 | Egypt | 1.8 |
| 1995 | Egypt | 2.3 |
| 2003 | Egypt | 1.8 |
| 2005 | Egypt | 2.5 |
| 2008 | Egypt | 3.8 |
| 2014 | Egypt | 4.8 |
| 2000 | Iraq | 2.4 |
| 2006 | Iraq | 2.7 |
| 2011 | Iraq | 2.7 |
| 2018 | Iraq | 0.9 |
| 1990 | Jordan | 1.5 |
| 1997 | Jordan | 0.6 |
| 2009 | Jordan | 0.2 |
| 2012 | Jordan | 0.7 |
| 2001 | Kuwait | 0.4 |
| 2002 | Kuwait | 0.5 |
| 2003 | Kuwait | 0.7 |
| 2004 | Kuwait | 1.1 |
| 2005 | Kuwait | 1 |
| 2006 | Kuwait | 0.6 |
| 2007 | Kuwait | 0.8 |
| 2008 | Kuwait | 0.5 |
| 2009 | Kuwait | 0.3 |
| 2010 | Kuwait | 0.6 |
| 2011 | Kuwait | 0.4 |
| 2012 | Kuwait | 0.6 |
| 2013 | Kuwait | 0.7 |
| 2014 | Kuwait | 0.6 |
| 2015 | Kuwait | 0.7 |
| 2016 | Kuwait | 0.5 |
| 2017 | Kuwait | 0.7 |
| 2018 | Kuwait | 0.9 |
| 2019 | Kuwait | 0.8 |
| 2020 | Kuwait | 0.8 |
| 2004 | Lebanon | 2.9 |
| 2021 | Lebanon | 0.3 |
Arab Region | Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5 (Arab countries,1990–2022)
Prevalence of severe wasting is the proportion of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
110
Source