Prevalence of stunting, height for age, female

Prevalence of stunting, female, is the percentage of girls under age 5 whose height for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. For children up to two years old height is measured by recumbent length. For older children height is measured by stature while standing. The data are based on the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
—
Cadence
Annual
Series
162
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNICEF

    Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Health Organization

    World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb, note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb, note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202441.40percent
Albania20246.90percent
Algeria20248.40percent
Angola202444.80percent
Argentina20249.70percent
Armenia20245.80percent
Australia20242.70percent
Azerbaijan20246.40percent
Bahrain20244.10percent
Bangladesh202424.40percent

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