Health · Senegal
Yearly data from 1986 to 2023, from the World Bank.
Senegal's prevalence of wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) was 11.4% in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.7 percentage points from 9.7% in 2013.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 11.4% | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 8.1% | 2018 |
| Ten years earlier | 9.7% | 2013 |
| Highest | 11.4% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 7.2% | 1986 |
| Average since 2014 | 9.34% | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 7.2% | 1986 |
Over five years it is up 3.3 percentage points from 8.1% in 2018. Since 1986 it is up 4.2 percentage points from 7.2% in 1986. The World Bank has no value for 23 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 2 percentage points in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.7 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
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 months.
Limitations: Survey estimates come with levels of uncertainty due to both sampling error and non-sampling error (e.g., measurement technical error, recording error etc.,). None of the two sources of errors have been fully taken into account for deriving estimates neither at country nor at regional or worldwide levels. Surveys are carried out in a specific period of the year, usually over a few months. However, this indicator can be affected by seasonality, factors related to food availability (e.g., pre-harvest periods), disease (e.g.,rainy season and diarrhoea, malaria, etc.), and natural disasters and conflicts. Hence, country-year estimates may not necessarily be comparable over time.
| Year | Prevalence of wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 11.4 |
| 2022 | no data |
| 2021 | no data |
| 2020 | no data |
| 2019 | 9.6 |
| 2018 | 8.1 |
| 2017 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 7.8 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2014 | 9.7 |
| 2013 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 9.9 |
| 2011 | 9.8 |
| 2010 | no data |
| 2009 | no data |
| 2008 | no data |
| 2007 | no data |
| 2006 | no data |
| 2005 | 8.8 |
| 2004 | no data |
| 2003 | no data |
| 2002 | no data |
| 2001 | no data |
| 2000 | 11.4 |
| 1999 | no data |
| 1998 | no data |
| 1997 | no data |
| 1996 | 8.5 |
| 1995 | no data |
| 1994 | no data |
| 1993 | 10.3 |
| 1992 | no data |
| 1991 | no data |
| 1990 | no data |
| 1989 | no data |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1987 | no data |
| 1986 | 7.2 |
Every indicator for Senegal is on the Senegal data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.STA.WAST.MA.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original 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., UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (a… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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