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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
LAC
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Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
2016,2011,2006,2001,1996,1991
This statistics in other country:
Timeline:
This timeline shows a graph from 1991 to 2016 of Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income). No data until 1990. Number of actual observations by date: 6.
Source name:
World Development Indicators
Source organization:
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. Adjusted, comparable data are available at http://www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/en. Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.
Categories, topics:
Health
Last updated:
apr 23, 2017
Indicators value changes by year
At the date of observation
Value
Absolute change
Change from previous value
jan 1, 1991
0.995
+0.995
0.0%
jan 1, 1996
0.762
-0.233
-23.43%
jan 1, 2001
0.583
-0.179
-23.47%
jan 1, 2006
0.446
-0.137
-23.51%
jan 1, 2011
0.341
-0.105
-23.53%
jan 1, 2016
0.261
-0.08
-23.55%
Ranking of countries by current statistics by years
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