Ecuador · Child Stunting, Under 5 (survey, %)
17.4%2024
Publisher note: Encuesta Nacional de Desnutrición Infantil - ENDI Ronda 2, Ecuador 2023-2024
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 · 8 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 1986 | 40.2 | Not reported | Not reported | Estudio sobre el Crecimiento de los Ninos en el Ecuador, 1986 Converted estimate |
| Ecuador | 1999 | 27.9 | 15.9 | 44.2 | Equidad desde el principio - situacion nutricional de los niños ecuatorianos. Encuesta de condiciones de vida, 1998. Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud y Ministerio de Salud Publica, Ecuador. Washington, D.C.: OPS, 2001 Height/length modality (standing/lying) was not collected |
| Ecuador | 2004 | 29.2 | 27.3 | 31.2 | Encuesta demografía y de salud materna e infantil, ENDEMAIN 2004: Informe final. Quito, Ecuador: CEPAR, 2005 Age calculated using alternate methods; Height/length modality (standing/lying) was not collected |
| Ecuador | 2006 | 25.9 | 24.7 | 27.2 | Encuesta de Condiciones De Vida, Ecuador 2005-2006, V Ronda |
| Ecuador | 2012 | 25.4 | 23.8 | 27 | Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición (ENSANUT-ECU) 2011-2013 |
| Ecuador | 2014 | 23.9 | 22.9 | 25 | Informe de Resultados Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida (ECV) 2013-2014, Instituto Nacional de Estadística Y Censos, 2015 |
| Ecuador | 2023 | 17.5 | 16.7 | 18.3 | Encuesta Nacional de Desnutrición Infantil - ENDI, Ecuador 2022-2023 |
| Ecuador | 2024 | 17.4 | 16.7 | 18.3 | Encuesta Nacional de Desnutrición Infantil - ENDI Ronda 2, Ecuador 2023-2024 |
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.