Child stunting

The share of children under five who are stunted by chronic malnutrition.

Stunting means a child is much shorter than healthy children of the same age: more than two standard deviations below the WHO growth standard. It is the mark of chronic malnutrition and repeated infection in the first years of life, and it harms learning and health for life. UNICEF, the WHO and the World Bank estimate the share of children under five who are stunted from household surveys with a model that fills the gaps between surveys.

• Food
• Malnutrition
• Children
• Stunting
• Country
• Year