electricsheepasia/asia-who-stunting-prevalence-among-children-under-5-years-of-age-nanthazne2

Stunting prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% height-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates | Asia (WHO GHO)

🌏 21,393 observations · 45 Asia countries · 1986–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 21,393 observations of Stunting prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% height-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates data across 45 Asia countries, spanning 1986–2024, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: WHO Global Health Observatory
• Publisher: World Health Organization
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Stunting prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% height-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates

Geographic coverage

45 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
KWT	1,727	1996	2023
BGD	1,173	1986	2022
VNM	1,084	1988	2023
NPL	858	1995	2022
MNG	761	1992	2023
PHL	710	1987	2021
IDN	708	1996	2023
PSE	703	1996	2020
JOR	664	1990	2023
KGZ	657	1997	2023
KHM	632	1996	2021
TJK	594	1999	2023
LKA	594	1987	2024
IND	591	1989	2020
THA	579	1987	2022
...	30 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• NUTRITION_ANT_HAZ_NE2

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_code	object	—	NUTRITION_ANT_HAZ_NE2
country_iso3	object	—	AFG
who_region	object	—	EMR
year	int64	—	1997
dim1_type	object	—	AGEGROUP
dim1	object	—	AGEGROUP_YEARSALL
dim2_type	object	—	AGEGROUP
dim2	object	—	AGEGROUP_YEARSALL
value_numeric	float64	—	53.2
value_low	float64	—	25.7
value_high	float64	—	29.7
value_display	object	—	53.2
last_updated	object	—	2025-05-09T07:08:11.777+02:00

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• dim1_type (8 unique values): AGEGROUP, EDUCATIONLEVEL, HOUSEHOLDWEALTH, RESIDENCEAREATYPE, SEX
• dim1 (63 unique values): AGEGROUP_YEARSALL, EDUCATIONLEVEL_TOTL, HOUSEHOLDWEALTH_TOTL, RESIDENCEAREATYPE_TOTL, SEX_BTSX
• dim2_type (1 unique values): AGEGROUP
• dim2 (22 unique values): AGEGROUP_YEARSALL, AGEGROUP_MONTHS12-23, AGEGROUP_MONTHS24-35, AGEGROUP_MONTHS36-47, AGEGROUP_MONTHS48-59

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-who-stunting-prevalence-among-children-under-5-years-of-age-nanthazne2")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "NUTRITION_ANT_HAZ_NE2"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value_numeric", title="NUTRITION_ANT_HAZ_NE2")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "NUTRITION_ANT_HAZ_NE2"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value_numeric"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_who_stunting_prevalence_among_children_under_5_years_of_age_nanthazne2_2024,
  title        = {Stunting prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% height-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates | Asia (WHO GHO)},
  author       = {World Health Organization},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://www.who.int/data/gho},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-who-stunting-prevalence-among-children-under-5-years-of-age-nanthazne2}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Health Organization. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-29 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.who.int/data/gho