Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: stunting-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	162	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	162	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	22	0
Children under 5 who are stunted (%)stuntingHeadline	The headline figure: Children under 5 who are stunted (%).	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.5179Latvia52.8000Burundimiddle 13.8000	159	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 162 countries.

Not in this dataset · 63 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustriaBahamasBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusDenmarkDominicaFaroe IslandsFranceFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyKosovoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayPalauPuerto RicoRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates)

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five (surveys to 2024)

   .NT_ANT_HAZ_NE2

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: stunting-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/stuntingA key for Health & Wellbeing in the Country Index.

A Joint Malnutrition Estimate of UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, read from UNICEF's warehouse. Where a country has several surveys, UNICEF's own priority flag decides which is used.