Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5)

Percentage of children under age 5 whose height-for-age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population, indicating chronic undernutrition.

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Coverage

1996–2022

Sources

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Nothing has been ingested yet for Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5) in World. Rather than estimate it, here is what the semantic layer already knows about the indicator itself.

Coverage below is what is currently curated for this indicator (any geography); it will fill in as more sources are crosswalked.

VNM 1988–2023 · 27 points

BGD 1986–2022 · 27 points

PER 1991–2023 · 24 points

KWT 1996–2023 · 24 points

JAM 1989–2018 · 22 points

VEN 1984–2009 · 21 points

NER 1985–2022 · 20 points

MLI 1987–2024 · 16 points

SEN 1986–2023 · 16 points

MWI 1992–2020 · 16 points

BFA 1993–2021 · 15 points

CHL 1986–2014 · 15 points

LKA 1987–2024 · 14 points

MEX 1988–2022 · 14 points

GBR 2007–2019 · 13 points

MRT 1988–2022 · 13 points

CHN 1987–2017 · 13 points

PHL 1987–2021 · 13 points

TZA 1991–2022 · 13 points

UGA 1988–2022 · 13 points

KEN 1987–2022 · 12 points

IDN 1996–2023 · 12 points

USA 1991–2022 · 12 points

BDI 1987–2024 · 12 points

TJK 1999–2023 · 12 points

Caveats

Survey-based (DHS/MICS rounds), not annual; Nepal has seen a sustained decline since the 1996 DHS baseline.