Stunting in children under five
Children under five whose height for their age is more than two standard deviations below the WHO growth standard median, a sign of chronic undernutrition. Data come from occasional surveys.
46 countries have a value for 2019, the latest period with data for most countries. Some countries have newer figures; see the ranking below for each country's latest year.
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% of children under 5. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | United States | China | India | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.8% | – | – | – |
| 2020 | – | – | 35.5% | – |
| 2018 | 3.4% | – | – | – |
| 2017 | – | 4.8% | 36.1% | – |
| 2016 | 3.5% | – | – | 1.3% |
| 2015 | – | – | 37.9% | – |
| 2014 | 2.4% | – | 38.7% | – |
| 2013 | – | 8.1% | – | – |
| 2012 | 2.2% | – | – | – |
| 2010 | 2.8% | 9.4% | – | – |
| 2009 | – | 9.0% | – | – |
| 2008 | 2.3% | 9.8% | – | – |
| 2006 | 3.1% | – | 47.8% | – |
| 2005 | – | 11.7% | – | – |
| 2004 | 2.9% | – | – | 1.2% |
| 2002 | 3.1% | 21.8% | – | – |
| 2000 | 3.2% | 17.8% | – | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 46 countries with a value for 2019, the highest is Burundi (54.0%) and the lowest Belarus (1.1%).
- Half of the countries are above 15.1% and half below.
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- 1 Burundi 54.0%
- 2 Niger 47.1%
- 3 Central African Republic 40.2%
- 4 Chad 37.8%
- 5 Ethiopia 36.8%
- 6 Malawi 34.0%
- 7 Nepal 31.5%
- 8 Liberia 29.8%
- 9 Sierra Leone 29.5%
- 10 Philippines 28.7%
- 11 Guinea-Bissau 28.1%
- 12 Bangladesh 28.0%
- 13 Indonesia 26.6%
- 14 Mali 26.4%
- 15 Malaysia 25.5%
- 16 Burkina Faso 23.8%
- 17 Zimbabwe 23.5%
- 18 Viet Nam 22.4%
- 19 Djibouti 20.9%
- 20 Mauritania 19.4%
- 21 Honduras 18.7%
- 22 Senegal 17.9%
- 23 Panama 15.9%
- 24 Morocco 14.2%
- 25 Mexico 14.1%
- 26 Thailand 13.4%
- 27 Saudi Arabia 13.2%
- 28 Peru 13.1%
- 29 São Tomé and Príncipe 11.7%
- 30 Algeria 9.8%
- 31 Guyana 9.5%
- 32 Sri Lanka 8.4%
- 33 Brazil 8.0%
- 34 Jordan 7.4%
- 35 Samoa 7.3%
- 36 Turkmenistan 7.2%
- 37 Cuba 7.1%
- 38 Dominican Republic 6.7%
- 39 Tuvalu 5.7%
- 40 Serbia 5.4%
- 41 Kuwait 4.6%
- 42 North Macedonia 4.3%
- 43 Tonga 2.2%
- 44 United Kingdom 2.0%
- 45 Finland 1.3%
- 46 Belarus 1.1%
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Grey: no value for 2019. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.