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 1993–2023 · 26 points

BGD 1990–2022 · 26 points

LKA 1993–2024 · 13 points

GBR 2007–2019 · 13 points

CHN 1990–2017 · 12 points

NPL 1995–2022 · 11 points

IND 1991–2020 · 9 points

KHM 1996–2021 · 7 points

MDV 1994–2017 · 6 points

PAK 1991–2018 · 6 points

AFG 1997–2022 · 5 points

BTN 1999–2023 · 4 points

Caveats

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