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Child Welfare · West Africa

Guinea-Bissau Child Wasting

6%as of 2014-3.6% vs 2012

Share of children under 5 who are wasted (low weight-for-height), a marker of acute undernutrition. Source: UNICEF CHILD WELFARE. Retrieved August 15, 2026.

Trend

2000 – 2014 · UNICEF

History

most recent 5 periods
PeriodChild Wasting
20146%
20126.2%
20105.9%
20084.8%
200011.8%

Get this via API

GET /v1/data

Request the available observations for this indicator as JSON. The response includes source metadata and reporting periods.

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/data?country_code=GW&metric_key=wasting_under5_pct" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

Child Wasting across Africa

View country ranking ->
CountryChild WastingPeriod
Nigeria11.6%2021
Kenya4.5%2022
South Africa3.6%2017
Egypt3.3%2021
Ghana5.8%2022
Ethiopia6.8%2019

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