Arab Region | Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5, female (Arab countries,1990–2021)

Prevalence of wasting, female, is the proportion of girls 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, female (Arab countries,1990–2021)
2000 Comoros 12.1
2012 Comoros 10.9
2000 Iraq 6.2
2006 Iraq 5.4
2011 Iraq 6.4
2018 Iraq 2.8
1999 Oman 7.2
2009 Oman 6
2014 Oman 6.8
2017 Oman 10
1990 Jordan 3.2
1997 Jordan 2.4
2002 Jordan 2
2009 Jordan 1.6
2012 Jordan 2.4
2019 Jordan 1
2006 Somalia 12
2009 Somalia 12.6
2006 Tunisia 3.3
2012 Tunisia 1.8
2018 Tunisia 2.1
1991 Egypt 3.7
1992 Egypt 4.1
1995 Egypt 5.5
2003 Egypt 5.2
2005 Egypt 5
2008 Egypt 7.1
2014 Egypt 9.5
1992 Morocco 2.3
1997 Morocco 4.5
2003 Morocco 10.4
2011 Morocco 1.8
2017 Morocco 2.8
1993 Syria 8.4
2001 Syria 9.9
2006 Syria 9.1
2010 Syria 10.5
1995 Libya 3.4
2007 Libya 6.1
2014 Libya 10.1
2013 Djibouti 12.4
2000 Mauritania 13.3
2007 Mauritania 12.8
2008 Mauritania 6.8
2011 Mauritania 12.9
2012 Mauritania 10.2
2015 Mauritania 13.3
2018 Mauritania 9.7
2019 Mauritania 9.8
2020 Mauritania 5.8
2021 Mauritania 8.4
2006 Sudan 13.9
2010 Sudan 14
2014 Sudan 15.7
1992 Algeria 7.2
1995 Algeria 9.4
2000 Algeria 2.9
2002 Algeria 9.3
2006 Algeria 4.3
2012 Algeria 3.8
2019 Algeria 2.4
1996 Palestine 3.2
2000 Palestine 1.8
2004 Palestine 3
2006 Palestine 1.8
2010 Palestine 3.2
2014 Palestine 1.2
2020 Palestine 1.3
1991 Yemen 12.7
1997 Yemen 15.4
2003 Yemen 13.7
2005 Yemen 12
2011 Yemen 11.7
2013 Yemen 14.8
2004 Lebanon 5.4
2021 Lebanon 1.4
2001 Kuwait 1.8
2002 Kuwait 2.2
2003 Kuwait 2.5
2004 Kuwait 3.1
2005 Kuwait 3.1
2006 Kuwait 3.4
2007 Kuwait 3.6
2008 Kuwait 1.9
2009 Kuwait 2.1
2010 Kuwait 2.1
2011 Kuwait 1.4
2012 Kuwait 2.4
2013 Kuwait 2.4
2014 Kuwait 2
2015 Kuwait 3.2
2016 Kuwait 1.9
2017 Kuwait 1.9
2018 Kuwait 2.7
2019 Kuwait 1.4
2020 Kuwait 2.7
2004 Saudi Arabia 10.8

Arab Region | Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, percentage of children under 5, female (Arab countries,1990–2021)

Prevalence of wasting, female, is the proportion of girls 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
97
Source