Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization

Despite global efforts to address malnutrition, the numbers of children under five who are not growing properly are alarming: 150.8 million (22.2 percent) are stunted (too short for their age), 50.5 million (7.5 percent) are wasted (too thin for th...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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spelling okr-10986-330122021-05-25T10:54:38Z Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization World Bank Group CHILD GROWTH MALNUTRITION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION Despite global efforts to address malnutrition, the numbers of children under five who are not growing properly are alarming: 150.8 million (22.2 percent) are stunted (too short for their age), 50.5 million (7.5 percent) are wasted (too thin for their height), and 38.3 million (5.6 percent) are overweight (too heavy for their height). Children living in lower-middle income countries (LMIC) are particularly affected. At these rates, the world is off course to reach the World Health Assembly targets for 2025 and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. 2019-12-13T20:11:33Z 2019-12-13T20:11:33Z 2019-06-30 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/279311575356495776/Innovations-and-Tools-in-Child-Growth-Measurement-and-Data-Visualization http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33012 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic CHILD GROWTH
MALNUTRITION
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
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MALNUTRITION
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
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Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
description Despite global efforts to address malnutrition, the numbers of children under five who are not growing properly are alarming: 150.8 million (22.2 percent) are stunted (too short for their age), 50.5 million (7.5 percent) are wasted (too thin for their height), and 38.3 million (5.6 percent) are overweight (too heavy for their height). Children living in lower-middle income countries (LMIC) are particularly affected. At these rates, the world is off course to reach the World Health Assembly targets for 2025 and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.
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title Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
title_short Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
title_full Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
title_fullStr Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
title_full_unstemmed Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
title_sort innovations and tools in child growth measurement and data visualization
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/279311575356495776/Innovations-and-Tools-in-Child-Growth-Measurement-and-Data-Visualization
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