| Stunting – low height for age Composant1 #155468 Childhood growth retardation as a result of long-term nutritional deprivation. |
- In developing countries, stunting remains the biggest problem (29%) with relative decrease of 20% per ten-year period, followed by wasting which shows a persistent rate around 10% for the last 20 years
- In Africa, stunting stagnated at ~ 40% which translates into increasing numbers of stunted children (from 45 million in 1990 to 60 million in 2010)
- Asia, in contrast, with a prevalence of 28%, nearly halved the number of stunted children over the last 20 years from 190 million (1990) to 100 million (2010)
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