Cameroon · Child Stunting, Under 5 (survey, %)
28.9%2018
Publisher note: Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Cameroun 2018. Yaoundé, Cameroun et Rockville, Maryland, USA : INS et ICF. 2020
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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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 7 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1991 | 31.6 | 28.8 | 34.5 | Enquête démographique et de santé Cameroun, 1991. Demographic and Health Surveys. Yaoundé, République du Cameroun, 1992 Age calculated using alternate methods |
| Cameroon | 1998 | 36.6 | 34 | 39.2 | Enquete démographique et de santé, Cameroun 1998. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, U.S.A. : Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population et Macro International Inc., 1999 Reduced age range |
| Cameroon | 2004 | 35.6 | 33.5 | 37.7 | Enquête démographique et de santé du Cameroun 2004. Demographic and Health Surveys. Calverton, Maryland, USA: INS et ORC Macro, 2004 |
| Cameroon | 2006 | 37.6 | 35.5 | 39.8 | Cameroun: Suivi de la situation des enfants et des femmes. Enquête par grappee à indicateurs multiples 2006. Rapport principal. Yaoundé, Cameroun: Institut National de la Statistique et UNICEF, 2008 |
| Cameroon | 2011 | 32.6 | 31.1 | 34.1 | Enquête démographique et de santé et à indicateurs multiples du Cameroun 2011. Demographic and Health Surveys and MICS. Calverton, Maryland, USA : INS et ICF International, 2012 |
| Cameroon | 2014 | 31.7 | 29.9 | 33.6 | Enquête par grappes à indicateurs multiples (MICS5), 2014, Rapport Final. Yaoundé, Cameroun, Institut National de la Statistique |
| Cameroon | 2018 | 28.9 | 27.1 | 30.8 | Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Cameroun 2018. Yaoundé, Cameroun et Rockville, Maryland, USA : INS et ICF. 2020 |
One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.