Joint child malnutrition estimates - Levels and trends (2019 edition)
UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank Group
The inter-agency team released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (March 2019 edition) using the same methodology as in previous years. These new estimates supersede former analyses results published by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank Group. Note the entire time series is updated; for assessing changes over time, comparisons should be made based on the update time series.
Given that country data are at maximum available from surveys conducted in the year previous to when the modelling exercise takes place, in 2019 the joint estimates were derived up to 2018 with extrapolation for stunting until 2030.
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Click here to open the interactive dashboard
The dashboard generates graphs and charts, using the latest joint estimates for stunting, overweight, wasting and severe wasting. Prevalence and numbers are presented by different country groupings (UN, SDG, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank income groups and World Bank regions).
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Download the joint data set
xlsx, 265kb
This data set consists of 854 national survey data which were standardized for analysis purpose. Estimates are adjusted where necessary to be nationally representative and to cover the age range 0-5 years. The adjustments are specified in the Notes column. As a result of making these adjustments, prevalence might be slightly different from the survey results reported elsewhere.
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Download regional and global joint estimates tables (2019 edition)
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Download updated 2019 regional classifications
xlsx, 32kb - The detailed methodology is described in the joint publication published in 2012
JME Child Malnutrition Estimates in the WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO)
You can download the JME estimates directly from GHO in other table formats: