Stunted children by country
Children too short for their age from poor nutrition. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 55 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Burundi 55.3%
- Papua New Guinea 43.5%
- Dem. Rep. Congo 41.6%
- Timor-Leste 40.9%
- Central African Rep. 40.0%
Lowest in 2019
- Tonga 2.2%
- Armenia 3.8%
- North Macedonia 4.8%
- Georgia 5.2%
- Turks and Caicos Is. 5.3%
About the data
- Unit
- % of children under 5
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Health database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/health/
All countries
- Albania 8.7% (2019)
- Algeria 10.0% (2019)
- Angola 37.2% (2019)
- Armenia 3.8% (2019)
- Azerbaijan 26.4% (2006)
- Bangladesh 28.0% (2019)
- Barbados 7.6% (2016)
- Belarus 4.5% (2009)
- Belize 17.7% (2014)
- Benin 32.7% (2018)
- Bhutan 33.5% (2014)
- Bolivia 23.9% (2011)
- Bosnia and Herz. 7.0% (2014)
- Botswana 29.1% (2004)
- Brazil 13.0% (2000)
- Burkina Faso 34.6% (2010)
- Burundi 55.3% (2019)
- Cambodia 32.0% (2014)
- Cameroon 28.7% (2019)
- Central African Rep. 40.0% (2019)
- Chad 37.8% (2019)
- Colombia 10.8% (2013)
- Comoros 30.7% (2012)
- Congo 19.7% (2018)
- Costa Rica 8.8% (2019)
- Côte d'Ivoire 31.5% (1999)
- Cuba 7.1% (2019)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 41.6% (2019)
- Djibouti 32.2% (2010)
- Dominican Rep. 5.5% (2016)
- Egypt 18.0% (2017)
- El Salvador 13.7% (2018)
- Eritrea 42.8% (2005)
- eSwatini 21.6% (2017)
- Ethiopia 36.9% (2019)
- Fiji 7.2% (2019)
- Gabon 16.6% (2012)
- Gambia 18.9% (2018)
- Georgia 5.2% (2019)
- Ghana 17.5% (2018)
- Guatemala 45.6% (2018)
- Guinea 30.9% (2019)
- Guinea-Bissau 27.7% (2019)
- Guyana 6.0% (2017)
- Haiti 21.2% (2019)
- Honduras 19.0% (2019)
- India 35.5% (2019)
- Iraq 11.0% (2019)
- Jordan 7.8% (2012)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 7.4% (2014)
- Kazakhstan 4.9% (2018)
- Kenya 26.0% (2014)
- Kiribati 15.4% (2019)
- Kyrgyzstan 11.5% (2019)
- Laos 28.7% (2019)
- Lesotho 34.5% (2018)
- Liberia 30.7% (2013)
- Madagascar 41.6% (2018)
- Malawi 36.9% (2016)
- Maldives 14.4% (2019)
- Mali 24.9% (2019)
- Mauritania 27.9% (2015)
- Mexico 12.5% (2019)
- Moldova 4.6% (2015)
- Mongolia 8.7% (2019)
- Montenegro 6.9% (2019)
- Morocco 21.5% (2006)
- Mozambique 43.3% (2011)
- Myanmar 26.8% (2019)
- Namibia 17.5% (2016)
- Nepal 31.6% (2019)
- Nicaragua 19.8% (2004)
- Niger 37.1% (2015)
- Nigeria 36.5% (2019)
- North Macedonia 4.8% (2019)
- Pakistan 36.1% (2019)
- Papua New Guinea 43.5% (2019)
- Peru 14.1% (2015)
- Rwanda 38.0% (2015)
- S. Sudan 31.3% (2014)
- Saint Lucia 2.6% (2016)
- Samoa 7.1% (2019)
- São Tomé and Principe 11.8% (2019)
- Senegal 17.6% (2019)
- Serbia 5.5% (2019)
- Sierra Leone 29.2% (2019)
- Somalia 42.1% (2010)
- South Africa 26.1% (2019)
- Sudan 41.2% (2017)
- Suriname 8.2% (2019)
- Syria 28.7% (2010)
- Tajikistan 13.9% (2019)
- Tanzania 34.1% (2015)
- Thailand 13.3% (2019)
- Timor-Leste 40.9% (2019)
- Togo 21.8% (2019)
- Tonga 2.2% (2019)
- Trinidad and Tobago 10.9% (2015)
- Tunisia 8.1% (2019)
- Turkey 5.7% (2019)
- Turkmenistan 7.2% (2019)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 5.3% (2019)
- Tuvalu 5.6% (2019)
- Uganda 25.2% (2019)
- Uzbekistan 14.4% (2009)
- Vanuatu 25.6% (2007)
- Vietnam 22.7% (2014)
- Yemen 46.3% (2017)
- Zambia 33.3% (2019)
- Zimbabwe 23.5% (2019)