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Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5)
2015,2014,2012,2009,2008,2004,2000,1994,1991
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Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5)

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1991 to 2015 of Nigeria. No data until 1990. Number of actual observations by date: 9.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries. Adjusted, comparable data are available at http://www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/en. Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.

Categories, topics:

Health, Aid Effectiveness

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:
40.678
Minimum:
32.9
jan 1, 2015
Maximum:
50.5
jan 1, 1991
At the date of observation
Value
Absolute change
Change from the previous value
jan 1, 1991
50.5
+50.5
0.0%
jan 1, 1994
43.8
-6.7
-13.27%
jan 1, 2000
39.7
-4.1
-9.36%
jan 1, 2004
43.0
+3.3
8.31%
jan 1, 2008
42.8
-0.2
-0.47%
jan 1, 2009
41.0
-1.8
-4.21%
jan 1, 2012
36.0
-5.0
-12.2%
jan 1, 2014
36.4
+0.4
1.11%
jan 1, 2015
32.9
-3.5
-9.62%

Ranking of countries by current statistics by years