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Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2024; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation covers 162 countries. Burundi is highest, at 52.8000; Latvia is lowest, at 0.5179. The middle country reads 14.2796. 28 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five · Latest available · compiled 2024

HighestBurundi

52.8000

LowestLatvia

0.5179

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation, as published. UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 162 countries · select a heading to sort

Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation: every country, as published by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates).
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1BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2024 reading202452.8000
2EritreaERIEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare201052.5328
3Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia · 2010 reading, too old to compare201049.4543
4YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2022 reading202248.5428
5NigerNERWestern Africa · 2022 reading202247.7003
6Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading202046.6885
7GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2021 reading202146.0000
8DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2023 reading202344.7000
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia · 2022 reading202244.6043
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2021 reading202139.8434
11SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading201438.2435
12Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2022 reading202237.9000
13PakistanPAKSouthern Asia · 2018 reading201837.6296
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa · 2015 reading201537.5711
15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2019 reading201936.7784
16MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa · 2022 reading202236.7298
17LesothoLSOSouthern Africa · 2024 reading202435.5652
18IndiaINDSouthern Asia · 2020 reading202035.4742
19MalawiMWIEastern Africa · 2020 reading202034.8962
20Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia · 2017 reading201734.7802
21ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2018 reading201834.5873
22BeninBENWestern Africa · 2021 reading202134.1264
23NigeriaNGAWestern Africa · 2021 reading202133.8000
24RwandaRWAEastern Africa · 2020 reading202033.1169
25LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading202332.8000

02In Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi52.8000
  2. 4Yemen48.5428
  3. 5Niger47.7003
  4. 6Timor-Leste46.6885
  5. 7Guatemala46.0000

Lowest

  1. 162Latvia0.5179
  2. 161South Korea0.8518
  3. 160Lithuania1.0358
  4. 159Poland1.0463
  5. 158Belarus1.2000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.2796. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2024, from 1995 to 2024. 28 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • 159 distinct values among 162

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 25.1000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    UNICEF publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 162 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates) (2024). Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stunting/2024

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06Questions

Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child stunting in Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation?

Burundi, at 52.8000, of the 162 countries in the file.

How many countries does Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation cover?

162.

Where can I download Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, 2024 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-10, when it was read from the publisher.

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