Global nutrition targets 2030: topical briefs on maternal, infant and young child nutrition

Overview

Recognizing that the world is not on track to meet all of the 2025 global nutrition targets, WHO Member States, during the 78th World Health Assembly in 2025, passed a resolution to extend the target by five years to 2030. This extension provides an opportunity for governments and stakeholders to intensify efforts toward achieving these vital nutrition goals, allowing renewed focus, coordinated investment, and collective action to accelerate progress. To increase efforts and measure progress, WHO and UNICEF recommends adopting operational targets to measure key indicators that are proximally linked to the 2030 Nutrition Targets. This brief outlines the rationale for extending the targets to 2030 and introduces the extended and new operational targets. The extended global nutrition targets to be achieved by 2030 are:

1. A 40% reduction in the number of children under five years of age who are stunted, compared to the 2012 baseline.
2. A 50% reduction in anaemia in women of reproductive age, compared to the 2012 baseline.
3. A 30% reduction in low birth weight, compared to the 2012 baseline.
4. Reduce and maintain overweight in children under five years of age to less than 5%.
5. Increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months up to at least 60%.
6. Reduce and maintain wasting in children under five years of age to less than 5%.