Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Target Target 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)


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Proportion of children moderately or severely wasted//under 5 years old (% of children aged 0-59 months)

Area grouping200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Africa.........................................................5.9...
Eastern Africa.........................................................5.9...
West Africa.........................................................6.5...
Central Africa.........................................................6.1...
North Africa.........................................................6.8...
Southern Africa.........................................................3.3...