Arab Region | Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5 (Arab countries,1990–2022)
Prevalence of wasting is the proportion of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two 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 wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5 (Arab countries,1990–2022)
| Year | Location |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Algeria | 7.1 |
| 1995 | Algeria | 9.6 |
| 2000 | Algeria | 3.1 |
| 2002 | Algeria | 9.6 |
| 2006 | Algeria | 4.1 |
| 2019 | Algeria | 2.7 |
| 1992 | Egypt | 4 |
| 1995 | Egypt | 5.7 |
| 1997 | Egypt | 7.5 |
| 2003 | Egypt | 5.2 |
| 2005 | Egypt | 5.3 |
| 2008 | Egypt | 7.9 |
| 1996 | Mauritania | 8.7 |
| 2000 | Mauritania | 15.3 |
| 2008 | Mauritania | 8.1 |
| 2011 | Mauritania | 13.9 |
| 2012 | Mauritania | 11.7 |
| 2015 | Mauritania | 14.8 |
| 2018 | Mauritania | 11.5 |
| 2019 | Mauritania | 11.1 |
| 2020 | Mauritania | 6.4 |
| 2021 | Mauritania | 10.1 |
| 2022 | Mauritania | 13.6 |
| 1991 | Iraq | 4.4 |
| 2003 | Iraq | 5.6 |
| 2004 | Iraq | 6.9 |
| 2006 | Iraq | 5.8 |
| 2011 | Iraq | 6.5 |
| 2018 | Iraq | 3 |
| 1991 | Oman | 7.8 |
| 1994 | Oman | 7.7 |
| 1999 | Oman | 7.8 |
| 2009 | Oman | 7.1 |
| 2014 | Oman | 7.5 |
| 2017 | Oman | 9.3 |
| 1997 | Tunisia | 7.2 |
| 2000 | Tunisia | 2.9 |
| 2006 | Tunisia | 3.4 |
| 2018 | Tunisia | 2.1 |
| 2011 | Djibouti | 10.2 |
| 2013 | Djibouti | 13.9 |
| 2019 | Djibouti | 10.6 |
| 1990 | Jordan | 4 |
| 1997 | Jordan | 2.4 |
| 2002 | Jordan | 2.5 |
| 2009 | Jordan | 1.6 |
| 2012 | Jordan | 2.4 |
| 1996 | Palestine | 3 |
| 2000 | Palestine | 2 |
| 2002 | Palestine | 2.4 |
| 2006 | Palestine | 1.8 |
| 2010 | Palestine | 3.3 |
| 1995 | Syria | 10.4 |
| 2000 | Syria | 4.9 |
| 2006 | Syria | 10.3 |
| 1994 | Saudi Arabia | 2.9 |
| 2004 | Saudi Arabia | 11.8 |
| 2015 | Saudi Arabia | 5.5 |
| 2016 | Saudi Arabia | 4.6 |
| 2017 | Saudi Arabia | 5.1 |
| 2018 | Saudi Arabia | 4.3 |
| 1996 | Comoros | 9.7 |
| 2000 | Comoros | 13.3 |
| 2012 | Comoros | 11.2 |
| 1995 | Libya | 3.6 |
| 2007 | Libya | 6.5 |
| 2014 | Libya | 10.2 |
| 1997 | Morocco | 4.7 |
| 2003 | Morocco | 10.8 |
| 2011 | Morocco | 2.3 |
| 2017 | Morocco | 2.6 |
| 2019 | Morocco | 2.3 |
| 1999 | Somalia | 19.3 |
| 2009 | Somalia | 14.3 |
| 1996 | Kuwait | 1.7 |
| 2001 | Kuwait | 2.2 |
| 2002 | Kuwait | 2.2 |
| 2003 | Kuwait | 2.6 |
| 2004 | Kuwait | 3.4 |
| 2005 | Kuwait | 3.3 |
| 2006 | Kuwait | 2.8 |
| 2007 | Kuwait | 3.6 |
| 2008 | Kuwait | 2.2 |
| 2009 | Kuwait | 1.8 |
| 2010 | Kuwait | 2.4 |
| 2012 | Kuwait | 2.4 |
| 2013 | Kuwait | 2.7 |
| 2014 | Kuwait | 2.4 |
| 2015 | Kuwait | 3 |
| 2017 | Kuwait | 2.4 |
| 2006 | Sudan | 14.5 |
| 2010 | Sudan | 15.4 |
| 2014 | Sudan | 16.3 |
| 1996 | Yemen | 17.4 |
| 1997 | Yemen | 16.5 |
| 2003 | Yemen | 15.3 |
| 2005 | Yemen | 13.8 |
| 2011 | Yemen | 13.3 |
| 2004 | Lebanon | 6.6 |
| 1995 | Qatar | 2.1 |
Arab Region | Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5 (Arab countries,1990–2022)
Prevalence of wasting is the proportion of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
129
Source