Table including information for all countries with summary progress statistics across all six target indicators for each of the target year.
Global Nutrition Targets Tracking Tool
The Global Nutrition Targets Tracking Tool can be used by Member States and other data stakeholders to set and monitor progress of the six nutrition targets endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012 for 2025, as well as towards 2030, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Countries are able to select which target year they wish to explore and obtain status, progress assessment and projections based on that choice.
Country indicator profiles
Summaries on baseline, trends and projections for selected target year, and what-if scenarios for progress assessment.
Includes basic information on the global status of each of the six nutrition target indicators.
A set of global maps showing the latest available country prevalence estimates (%) colour coded according to severity levels and the country number affected colour coded according to quintiles.
Data sources
- Anaemia - WHO Global Anaemia Estimates
- Exclusive breastfeeding - UNICEF Global databases - Infant and Young Child Feeding
- Low birthweight - UNICEF Global databases - Low birthweight
- Stunting,overweight and wasting- UNICEF-WHO-World Bank-Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME)
Acknowledgements
The Global Nutrition Targets Tracking Tool was developed jointly by WHO, UNICEF and the European Commission, and supported by Global Affairs Canada, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the 1000 Days Partnership, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, the Department for International Development – United Kingdom, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Scaling up Nutrition Movement, the German Federal Government through Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, and the World Bank.
Related links
- Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework
- WHO conceptual framework for stunted growth and development
- Global database on the Implementation of Food Nutrition Action (GIFNA)
- Global Nutrition Targets Policy briefs
- EVIPNet
- OneHealth
- Essential Nutrition Actions
- Global nutrition policy review
- Nutrition Data Portal
- WHO Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS)
- WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
- WHO Child Growth Standards
- Breastfeeding and Low birthweight
- European Commission
- Global Nutrition Report
- Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS)
- Nutrition, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Joint child malnutrition estimates (The Global Health Observatory)
- UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
- UNICEF Global databases - Infant and Young Child Feeding
- UNICEF Global databases - Low birthweight
- UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank - Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME)
- Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS)
Disclaimer
The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this application do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), or the European Commission (EC) concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning he delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement.
While every effort has been made to maximize the comparability of statistics across countries and over time, users are advised that country data may differ in terms of data collection methods, population coverage and estimation methods used. Differences between the estimates presented in this report and those in prior and forthcoming publications may arise because of differences in reporting periods or in the availability of data during the production process of each publication and other evidence.
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