Ghana · Child Wasting, Under 5 (survey, %)

5.8%2022

Publisher note: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2022. Accra, Ghana, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GSS and ICF.

Unit: percent of children under age 5. Publisher measure: Wasting prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% weight-for-height <-2 SD), survey-based estimates.

Weight-for-height below -2 SD, WHO country-level survey estimates, both sexes, no additional disaggregation; retain survey comments. Reference years are irregular survey labels; fieldwork windows were not supplied by the retained projection. Matching year labels do not prove matching collection periods.

Measurement basis: survey-based estimate; reference years are irregular.

Reference-period cadence: irregular survey reference years.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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Reported estimates and independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
Country	Year	Reading	Lower endpoint	Upper endpoint	Publisher note
Ghana	1988	9.1	7.9	10.5	Ghana demographic and health survey 1988. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ghana Statistical Service. Accra, Ghana, 1989 Reduced age range; Height/length modality (standing/lying) was not collected
Ghana	1993	14.5	12.8	16.4	Ghana demographic and health survey 1993. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: GSS and MI, 1994 Reduced age range
Ghana	1997	8.2	7.3	9.2	Ghana Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey 1997, First round Height/length modality (standing/lying) was not collected
Ghana	1998	9.9	8.8	11.1	Ghana demographic and health survey 1998. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: GSS and MI, 1999
Ghana	2003	8.4	7.4	9.5	Ghana demographic and health survey 2003. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: GSS, NMIMR, and ORC Macro, 2004
Ghana	2006	6	5	7	Monitoring the situation of children, women and men. Ghana Multiple indicator cluster survey 2006.
Ghana	2008	8.7	7.7	9.8	Ghana demographic and health survey 2008. Demographic and Health Surveys. Accra, Ghana: GSS, GHS, and ICF Macro, 2009
Ghana	2011	6.2	5.5	7	Ghana multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) with an enhanced malaria module and biomarker 2011: Final report. Accra, Ghana, 2012 Oedema data was not considered in the analysis
Ghana	2014	4.7	3.6	6.1	Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2014. Rockville, Maryland, USA: GSS, GHS, and ICF International.
Ghana	2017	6.8	6.1	7.6	Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS2017/18), Survey Findings Report. Accra, Ghana: GSS
Ghana	2022	5.8	4.9	6.8	Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2022. Accra, Ghana, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GSS and ICF.