Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5)

This dataset provides data on the prevalence of stunting in children under 5. Stunting is defined as low height for age.

Data Resources (1)

Field	Value
Dataset topic category	Food security SDG2 Zero Hunger
Language	English
Use limitations	The World Bank Group makes data publicly available according to open data standards and licenses datasets under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0). Many datasets are available under other licenses. They are labeled accordingly, and when they are accessed by users, users agree to comply with all of the terms of the respective licenses, as explained below.
Temporal extent's start date	January 1, 1983
Temporal extent's end date	December 31, 2017
GeoNames	Global
Process Step	Go to the World Bank Open Data website (https://data.worldbank.org), search for stunting in children under 5 and the website will display the numbers. It is possible to download the datasets.
Lineage	The World Bank Open Data
Responsible party	The World Bank https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/contacts
Format version	The dataset is in xls format
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Copyright	Yes
Keywords	stunting,malnutrition,undernutrition
Date uploaded	December 17, 2019, 08:32 (UTC)
Date modified	January 6, 2020, 08:21 (UTC)