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Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5)

Definition: 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.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.

Year	Value
1993	4.90
2000	10.60
2006	9.10
2009	3.80
2014	6.20

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5)

Definition: Prevalence of wasting, male,is the proportion of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.

Year	Value
1993	8.30
2000	13.50
2006	7.70
2009	7.30
2014	6.70

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5) in Guyana was 6.40 as of 2014. Its highest value over the past 21 years was 13.30 in 1997, while its lowest value was 5.50 in 2009.

Definition: 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.

Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.

Year	Value
1993	6.70
1997	13.30
2000	12.10
2006	8.30
2009	5.50
2014	6.40

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Nutrition