Global Nutrition & Food SecurityUndernourishment, child stunting / wasting / underweight, the double burden of malnutrition, and food insecurity — for the world, income groups, regions & ~55 of the largest countries

How to read this. Every figure is a World Bank reported value for a specific year — always shown next to the number, because the latest available year varies (undernourishment runs through ~2023; child anthropometry comes from periodic surveys and can be several years old). This is descriptive: it shows where nutrition stands and how it has moved since 2000, including recent progress and where it has stalled or risen. It does not predict the future; cross-country comparisons carry differences in survey timing and method.

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● Global hunger headline measuredinterpretive

World prevalence of undernourishment · —

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People facing hunger worldwide · — interpretive

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World undernourishment (% of population), 2000→— measured

World under-5 underweight (% of children), 2000→—

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▤ Child malnutrition — by country (highest first) measured

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Ranked across the ~55 most populous countries in this atlas (not all 200+ World Bank economies). Higher burden is at the top. The year column is the latest available reported value for each country and indicator — child-nutrition surveys are periodic, so years differ between rows and a high rank can reflect an older survey. Bar length is relative to the highest value shown. Missing surveys are omitted, never shown as zero.

◇ The double burden — undernutrition alongside rising overweight measuredinterpretive

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under-nutrition child overweight

The "double burden" is the coexistence of under-nutrition (here: child stunting, or undernourishment for region/income aggregates) and rising child overweight in the same population. World Bank does not publish world or regional aggregates for child overweight or stunting, so the country view pairs each country's own latest stunting and overweight surveys; the region / income views pair the Bank's aggregate undernourishment with the population-weighted average of member-country overweight surveys shown here (a descriptive summary, not the Bank's official aggregate). Years differ by indicator and are shown.

◑ The global divide — by income group & region measured

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World Bank aggregate series. Only indicators the Bank aggregates (undernourishment, wasting, severe wasting, under-5 underweight) appear here — stunting, overweight and food insecurity are released at the country level only and are shown in the leaderboard and country profile instead. The spark line traces 2000→latest; "change" is latest vs. the first available year. These aggregates are population-weighted estimates, not a simple average of member countries.

◎ Country profile measured

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Undernourishment, 2000→latest measured

Under-5 underweight, survey points

How it compares — stunting, latest value

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