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

Indicator id: stunting_under5 · Unit: % · Coverage: 1996-2022

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.

Sources

• World Bank (preferred) -- dataset WDI, code SH.STA.STNT.ZS (https://data.worldbank.org)

Caveats

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

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 2.2 -- End all forms of malnutrition, including stunting and wasting
Topic: Health
Themes: health, food

Also known as

"child stunting", "stunting rate", "malnutrition", "children too short for their age"

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