Uzbekistan - Prevalence of severe wasting
Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5)
Definition: Prevalence of severe wasting, female, is the proportion of girls under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three 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.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 4.00 |
| 2006 | 1.20 |
| 2017 | 0.40 |
Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5)
Definition: Prevalence of severe wasting, male, is the proportion of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three 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.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 3.70 |
| 2006 | 2.00 |
| 2017 | 0.20 |
Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
Definition: 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.
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.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 6.10 |
| 2002 | 3.90 |
| 2006 | 1.60 |
| 2017 | 0.30 |
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Nutrition
