Tanzania · Child Wasting, Under 5 (survey, %)
3.1%2022
Publisher note: Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2022 Final Report. Dodoma, Tanzania, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: MoH, NBS, OCGS, 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 uncertainty · 13 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 1991 | 7.8 | 7 | 8.7 | Tanzania demographic and health survey 1991/92. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, 1992 |
| Tanzania | 1996 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 9.4 | Tanzania demographic and health survey 1996. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: Bureau of Statistics and Macro International Inc., 1997 |
| Tanzania | 1999 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 7.3 | Tanzania reproductive and child health survey 1999. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland: National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] and Macro International Inc., 2000 |
| Tanzania | 2004 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.1 | Tanzania demographic and health survey 2004-05. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: National Bureau of Statistics and ORC Macro, 2005 |
| Tanzania | 2009 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 3.8 | Tanzania National Panel Survey Report (NPS) - Wave 2, 2008 - 2009. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: NBS |
| Tanzania | 2010 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 5.5 | Tanzania demographic and health survey 2010. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: NBS and ICF Macro, 2011 |
| Tanzania | 2011 | 6.2 | 5.2 | 7.5 | Tanzania National Panel Survey Report (NPS) - Wave 2, 2010 - 2011. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: NBS, 2012. |
| Tanzania | 2013 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 5.3 | Tanzania National Panel Survey Report (NPS) - Wave 3, 2012 - 2013. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: NBS, 2014 |
| Tanzania | 2014 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 4.2 | Tanzania national nutrition survey 2014: Final report. United Republic of Tanzania, December 2014. Oedema data was considered in the analysis |
| Tanzania | 2015 | 4.5 | 4 | 5 | Tanzania demographic and health survey 2015-16. Demographic and Health Surveys. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: NBS and ICF International, 2016 |
| Tanzania | 2018 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.9 | Tanzania National Nutrition Survey using SMART Methodology (TNNS) 2018. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: MoHCDGEC, MoH, TFNC, NBS, OCGS, and UNICEF. Oedema data was considered in the analysis |
| Tanzania | 2021 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 4.5 | Tanzania 2020-2022 National Panel Survey, Wave 5 |
| Tanzania | 2022 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.7 | Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2022 Final Report. Dodoma, Tanzania, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: MoH, NBS, OCGS, and 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.