Really pleased to see our global stunting data up on our world in data. We hope it helps people contextualise child stunting in a much longer historical lens.
Thanks to Hannah and Tuna for visualising and explaining the data so well!
The link to the original paper is here:
doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...
doi.org
Eric Schneider
✍️ New article: “Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century”
One in four children in the world today suffers from “stunting”. That’s 150 *million* children under five.
A stunted child is too short for their age due to poor nutrition and frequent infections.
