Global Targets 2030: To improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition

At the 78th World Health Assembly in 2025, WHO Member States adopted a resolution to extend the Global Nutrition Targets for improving maternal, infant, and young child nutrition from 2025 to 2030. The targets remain vital for identifying priority areas for action and catalysing global change, aligning with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda.

The resolution extends four existing targets (based on the 2012 baseline):

• Target 1: 40% reduction in the number of children under five years of age who are stunted
• Target 2: 50% reduction in anaemia in women of reproductive age.
• Target 3: 30% reduction in low birth weight
• Target 6: Reduce and maintain wasting in children under five years of age to less than 5%.

Meanwhile, targets 4 and 5, which are close to being met in 2025, have been revised to raise ambition:

• Target 4: Childhood overweight: The ambition of the target has been strengthened from the original target of maintaining the 2012 prevalence to reducing overweight among children under five to below 5% by 2030.
• Target 5: Exclusive breastfeeding: To accelerate progress, the target has been increased from the original up to 50% of infants exclusively breastfed during the first six months of life by 2025 to up to 60% by 2030.

 This extension provides an opportunity for countries and partners to strengthen their focus, increase investments, and accelerate actions to meet these goals.