Child underweight and stunting prevalences are falling significantly in most countries, except in Africa. This indicator is used to assess progress towards MDG1 (on hunger and malnutrition), and a number of countries are improving fast enough to meet this goal. Overall, African countries show insufficient progress to achieve MDG1, whereas Asian countries as well as Latin American (and Caribbean) countries are on track to achieve it (or have already achieved it). In central and south America, stunting is the more widespread form of child growth retardation – whereas in other regions the prevalences of stunting and underweight move in parallel.
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