Diarrhea treatment - percentage of children (under age 5) with diarrhea who received zinc
Latest available country observation from Our World in Data, based on the chart's cited sources. The series currently runs through 2021; countries can have different observation years.
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Data Analysis
Value Distribution
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Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 19.0%)
Percentile Profile
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About This Statistic
Latest available country observation from Our World in Data, based on the chart's cited sources. The series currently runs through 2021; countries can have different observation years. Source: Our World in Data.
Methodology
Country values are taken from the latest observation available in the linked source series.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra Leone | 57.8% |
| 2 | North Korea | 50.7% |
| 3 | Timor-Leste | 50.2% |
| 4 | Maldives | 48.3% |
| 5 | Eswatini | 45.2% |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 43.6% |
| 7 | Uganda | 40.3% |
| 8 | Zambia | 38.5% |
| 9 | Nepal | 37.9% |
| 10 | Indonesia | 37.3% |
| 11 | Ghana | 37.1% |
| 12 | South Africa | 36.8% |
| 13 | Afghanistan | 36.6% |
| 14 | Rwanda | 36.5% |
| 15 | Sao Tome and Principe | 36.1% |
| 16 | Guinea-Bissau | 34.1% |
| 17 | Ethiopia | 33.3% |
| 18 | Republic of The Gambia | 33.3% |
| 19 | Samoa | 33.0% |
| 20 | El Salvador | 32.7% |
| 21 | Senegal | 31.5% |
| 22 | Nigeria | 31.1% |
| 23 | Mozambique | 30.9% |
| 24 | Honduras | 30.7% |
| 25 | India | 30.5% |
| 26 | Malawi | 29.2% |
| 27 | Guinea | 26.0% |
| 28 | Philippines | 24.4% |
| 29 | Liberia | 23.4% |
| 30 | Mauritania | 23.2% |
| 31 | Zimbabwe | 22.5% |
| 32 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 21.8% |
| 33 | Kyrgyzstan | 21.8% |
| 34 | Cameroon | 20.6% |
| 35 | Chad | 20.5% |
| 36 | Niger | 20.2% |
| 37 | Tajikistan | 19.7% |
| 38 | Cote d'Ivoire | 18.3% |
| 39 | United Republic of Tanzania | 17.5% |
| 40 | Lesotho | 17.4% |
| 41 | Benin | 17.0% |
| 42 | Vietnam | 16.9% |
| 43 | Mongolia | 16.5% |
| 44 | Cuba | 16.1% |
| 45 | Republic of the Congo | 16.0% |
| 46 | Mali | 15.4% |
| 47 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 15.2% |
| 48 | Sudan | 15.2% |
| 49 | Albania | 14.9% |
| 50 | Bolivia | 14.5% |
| 51 | Kiribati | 13.5% |
| 52 | Central African Republic | 13.0% |
| 53 | Pakistan | 12.5% |
| 54 | Georgia | 10.9% |
| 55 | Turkmenistan | 10.9% |
| 56 | Mexico | 10.8% |
| 57 | Madagascar | 10.6% |
| 58 | Togo | 10.4% |
| 59 | Belize | 9.6% |
| 60 | Myanmar | 8.4% |
| 61 | Kenya | 8.1% |
| 62 | Belarus | 7.4% |
| 63 | Iraq | 7.4% |
| 64 | Papua New Guinea | 7.3% |
| 65 | Paraguay | 7.1% |
| 66 | Haiti | 6.2% |
| 67 | Tuvalu | 5.8% |
| 68 | Cambodia | 5.4% |
| 69 | Costa Rica | 4.8% |
| 70 | Tunisia | 3.9% |
| 71 | Armenia | 3.7% |
| 72 | South Sudan | 3.1% |
| 73 | Solomon Islands | 2.3% |
| 74 | Egypt | 1.7% |
| 75 | Guatemala | 1.3% |
| 76 | Guyana | 1.3% |
| 77 | Vanuatu | 1.0% |
| 78 | Peru | 0.9% |
| 79 | Bhutan | 0.8% |
| 80 | Comoros | 0.4% |
| 81 | Burkina Faso | 0.4% |
| 82 | Yemen | 0.4% |
| 83 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.2% |
| 84 | Namibia | 0.2% |
| 85 | Burundi | 0.1% |
| 86 | Dominican Republic | 0.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from Our World in Data (2021).
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