Prevalence of children with fever (% of children under 5): Q5 (highest) by country
Prevalence of children with fever: Percentage of children under age five years with fever in the two weeks preceding the survey.
Countries reporting
36
Highest
30.8%
Malawi
Lowest
10.5%
Mauritania
Median
17.8%
Years covered
32
1990–2021
Data points
235
What the numbers show
Prevalence of children with fever (% of children under 5): Q5 (highest) is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 30.8% in Malawi; the lowest is 10.5% in Mauritania.
The median across all reporting countries is 17.8%, and the mean is 19.3%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.
Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 247.9%), and the largest decrease in Uganda (down 64.6%).
Prevalence of children with fever (% of children under 5): Q5: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malawi | 30.8% | 2017 | up 13.7% | falling |
| 2 | Côte d'Ivoire | 30.6% | 2016 | up 47.8% | flat |
| 3 | Chad | 30.3% | 2019 | up 18.4% | falling |
| 4 | Haiti | 29.0% | 2017 | up 26.6% | falling |
| 5 | Burundi | 27.2% | 2017 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 6 | Dominican Republic | 26.9% | 2014 | up 38.7% | rising |
| 7 | Liberia | 26.7% | 2020 | down 44.9% | falling |
| 8 | Guinea-Bissau | 26.1% | 2019 | up 57.2% | falling |
| 9 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 26.0% | 2018 | unchanged | falling |
| 10 | Indonesia | 25.3% | 2017 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 11 | Ghana | 23.1% | 2019 | up 61.5% | falling |
| 12 | Colombia | 21.2% | 2010 | down 20.9% | flat |
| 13 | Guinea | 20.9% | 2018 | down 26.4% | falling |
| 14 | Bangladesh | 20.4% | 2019 | down 41.4% | falling |
| 15 | Egypt | 19.8% | 2014 | down 36.3% | falling |
| 16 | Burkina Faso | 19.5% | 2018 | up 2.1% | falling |
| 17 | Togo | 18.9% | 2017 | up 24.3% | falling |
| 18 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 18.3% | 2017 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 19 | Peru | 17.3% | 2012 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 20 | Nepal | 16.9% | 2019 | down 14.2% | falling |
| 21 | Benin | 16.8% | 2018 | down 25.7% | falling |
| 22 | Zimbabwe | 16.7% | 2019 | up 247.9% | flat |
| 23 | Senegal | 16.0% | 2019 | down 55.4% | falling |
| 24 | Sierra Leone | 15.2% | 2019 | down 46.3% | falling |
| 25 | Rwanda | 14.7% | 2020 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 26 | Nigeria | 14.2% | 2018 | up 10.1% | falling |
| 27 | Mali | 13.9% | 2018 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 27 | Kenya | 13.9% | 2020 | down 32.2% | falling |
| 27 | Gambia | 13.9% | 2020 | up 58.0% | rising |
| 30 | Cameroon | 13.4% | 2018 | down 10.7% | falling |
| 31 | Philippines | 12.7% | 2017 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 31 | Uganda | 12.7% | 2019 | down 64.6% | falling |
| 33 | Zambia | 11.7% | 2018 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 34 | Madagascar | 11.5% | 2021 | down 37.8% | rising |
| 35 | Jordan | 10.7% | 2018 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 36 | Mauritania | 10.5% | 2021 | down 5.4% | falling |
About this data
Prevalence of children with fever: Percentage of children under age five years with fever in the two weeks preceding the survey.