Senegal · Child Underweight, Under 5 (survey, %)
16.2%2023
Publisher note: Enquête Démographique et de Santé Continue (Enquête Continue 2023) et Rockville, Maryland, USA : ANSD et ICF
Unit: percent of children under age 5. Publisher measure: Underweight prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% weight-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates.
Weight-for-age 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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History and uncertainty
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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 16 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 1986 | 16.9 | 13.8 | 20.6 | Enquête démographique et de santé au Sénégal, 1986. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dakar, Republique du Sénégal, 1987 Reduced age range |
| Senegal | 1991 | 20.4 | Not reported | Not reported | Social Dimensions of Adjustment Household Priority Survey 1991-92. New York: The World Bank, 1993 Age-adjusted; Converted estimate |
| Senegal | 1993 | 19 | 17.6 | 20.4 | Enquête démographique et de santé au Sénégal (EDS-II) 1992/93. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dakar, Sénégal, 1994 |
| Senegal | 1996 | 18.5 | 17.7 | 19.4 | Evaluation des objectives intermédiares (MICS). Dakar: UNICEF, September 1996 Age calculated using alternate methods |
| Senegal | 2000 | 17.8 | 16.4 | 19.3 | Rapport de l'enquête sur les objectives de la fin de decennie sur l'enfance (MICS-II-2000). Dakar, Senegal, Novembre 2000 |
| Senegal | 2005 | 14.5 | 12.6 | 16.7 | Enquête démographique et de santé au Sénégal 2005. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA : Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Humain [Sénégal] et ORC Macro, 2006 |
| Senegal | 2011 | 18.4 | 16.9 | 20 | Enquête démographique et de santé à indicateurs multiples au Sénégal (EDS-MICS) 2010-2011. Demographic and Health Surveys and MICS. Calverton, Maryland, USA: ANSD et ICF International, 2012 |
| Senegal | 2012 | 14.4 | 13.8 | 15 | Enqeute SMART Nationale SMART 2012. Dakar, Senegal: CLM, 2013 Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Senegal | 2013 | 14.8 | 13.9 | 15.7 | Sénégal Enquête nationale sur la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle (2013), SMART Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Senegal | 2014 | 12.8 | 11.9 | 13.8 | Analyse de la situation nutritionnelle du Sénégal, Rapport Final 2014 Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Senegal | 2015 | 14 | 13.1 | 14.9 | Enquête nutritionnelle Nationale utilisant la methodologie SMART, Senegal 2015 Oedema data was not considered in the analysis |
| Senegal | 2016 | 13.8 | 12.4 | 15.2 | Senegal : Enquête Démographique et de Santé Continue (EDS-Continue 2016). Rockville, Maryland, USA : ANSD et ICF |
| Senegal | 2017 | 14.4 | 13.6 | 15.4 | Enquête Continue du Sénégal, Cinquième Phase 2017 : Rapport de synthèse. Rockville, Maryland, USA : ANSD et ICF |
| Senegal | 2018 | 15.1 | 13.5 | 17 | Sénégal : Enquête Démographique et de Santé Continue (EDS-Continue 2018). Rockville, Maryland, USA : ANSD et ICF. |
| Senegal | 2019 | 14.4 | 13.2 | 15.6 | Sénégal : Enquête Démographique et de Santé Continue (EDS-Continue 2019). Rockville, Maryland, USA : ANSD et ICF |
| Senegal | 2023 | 16.2 | 15 | 17.6 | Enquête Démographique et de Santé Continue (Enquête Continue 2023) et Rockville, Maryland, USA : ANSD et ICF |
One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.