Regional grouping :
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Target 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)


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Proportion of children moderately or severely wasted//under 5 years old (% of children aged 0-59 months)

Country200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Algeria.........4.1...............4.1..................2.7............
Angola............8.3.....................4.9........................
Botswana............7.3................................................
Burundi......9.0............6.0...............5.1...4.84.85.7...4.9...
Cameroon...6.2...7.6............5.7......5.2.........4.3...............
Central African Republic.........12.1.........7.4...7.4...6.2.........6.55.4............
Chad...16.2...............16.3............13.3...13.513.613.99.510.28.3...
Comoros...........................11.2.................................
Congo......8.0...............6.0......8.2...........................
Democratic Republic of the Congo............10.4......8.5......8.1.........6.4..................
Benin...............5.2...............4.5.........5.0...............
Equatorial Guinea...2.8..................3.1....................................
Ethiopia......12.4...............9.8......8.8...10.0......6.8............
Eritrea.....................14.6.......................................
Djibouti........................10.221.513.9...............10.6............
Gabon...........................3.4.....................3.4.........
Gambia, the.........7.4.........9.5...9.511.0............6.2...5.1.........
Ghana8.4......6.0...8.7......6.2......4.7......6.8..................
Guinea......11.0...7.2.........5.110.0.........8.1...9.2...............
Cote d'Ivoire.........8.414.3............7.6.........6.1............8.4......
Kenya6.2...6.9......6.9......6.0......4.2...7.0...............4.9...
Lesotho...5.6............3.8............2.8.........2.1...............
Liberia............7.9......4.0......5.6......4.3......3.4............
Libya............6.5..................10.2...........................
Madagascar...15.1.....................7.5...............6.4......7.2......
Malawi...6.3...4.2......1.94.0.........3.82.84.12.61.50.82.6.........
Mali.........15.4.........8.910.4......13.113.510.610.59.09.17.29.310.6...
Mauritania............13.68.1......13.911.7......14.8......11.511.16.410.113.6...
Morocco10.8.....................2.3...............2.6...2.3............
Mozambique5.4............4.2......6.1.........4.4............3.9.........
Namibia............7.6...............7.1..............................
Niger.........12.512.513.812.515.812.418.212.414.213.610.4...14.19.812.011.510.9...
Nigeria11.2.........13.414.5......10.2...18.17.97.310.8...6.8...6.5.........
Guinea-Bissau.........8.8.........5.9...6.2...6.0............5.1............
Rwanda......4.9.........5.12.9...2.6......2.3......2.1...1.1.........
Sao Tome and Principe.........9.6...11.6...............4.0............4.1............
Senegal......8.7...............9.88.79.05.97.87.19.07.88.1............
Seychelles...........................4.3.................................
Sierra Leone......10.2......10.5...7.5......9.44.6......6.8...5.4...6.3......
Somalia.........13.3......14.3..........................................
South Africa...7.8.........5.1.........5.6......4.62.53.8..................
Zimbabwe......7.2.........2.43.2.........3.23.3.........2.9............
Sudan.........14.5.........15.4.........16.3...........................
Eswatini.........2.9...1.1...0.8.........2.0...........................
Togo.........15.5...6.06.14.8...5.5...6.6......5.7..................
Tunisia.........3.4...............2.8...............2.1...............
Uganda.........6.2......4.4...4.64.2...3.85.73.5...2.8...3.6.........
Egypt5.2...5.3......7.9...............9.5...........................
United Republic of Tanzania...3.5............2.94.96.2...4.43.84.5......3.51.7......3.3...
Burkina Faso21.2......24.4......11.315.510.410.78.18.510.27.58.68.48.18.010.6......
Zambia............5.6...............6.2............4.2...............
South Sudan.........24.6.........22.7.......................................

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