Bolivia · Child Stunting, Under 5 (survey, %)

16.1%2016

Publisher note: Bolivia Encuesta de Demografia y Salud - EDSA 2016: Indicadores Priorizados

Unit: percent of children under age 5. Publisher measure: Stunting prevalence among children under 5 years of age (% height-for-age <-2 SD), survey-based estimates.

Height-for-age below -2 SD, WHO country-level survey estimates, both sexes, no additional disaggregation; not model-based annual interpolation. Reference years are irregular survey labels; fieldwork windows were not supplied by the retained projection. Matching year labels do not prove matching collection periods.

Measurement basis: survey-based estimate; reference years are irregular.

Reference-period cadence: irregular survey reference years.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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CountryYearReadingLower endpointUpper endpointPublisher note
Bolivia198941.938.745.1Encuesta nacional de demografia y salud 1989. Demographic and Health Surveys. La Paz, Bolivia, 1990 Reduced age range; Height/length modality (standing/lying) was not collected
Bolivia199434.432.336.6Encuesta nacional de demografia y salud 1994. Demographic and Health Surveys. La Paz, Bolivia, 1994 Reduced age range
Bolivia199833.231.634.8Encuesta nacional de demografia y salud 1998. Demographic and Health Surveys. La Paz, Bolivia, 1998
Bolivia200332.431.133.8Encuesta nacional de demografia y salud (ENDSA) 2003. Demographic and Health Surveys. La Paz, Bolivia: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Ministerio de Salud y Deportes, Programa Measure DHS+/ORC Macro, 2004
Bolivia200827.125.628.8Encuesta nacional de demografía y salud ENDSA 2008. Demographic and Health Surveys. La Paz, Bolivia: MSD, PRS, INE y Macro International, 2009
Bolivia201218.216.919.6Encuesta de Evaluación de Salud y Nutrición 2012: Informe de Resultados
Bolivia201616.114.917.3Bolivia Encuesta de Demografia y Salud - EDSA 2016: Indicadores Priorizados

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