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

20.0%2021

Publisher note: Eswatini Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2021-2022, Survey Findings Report. Mbabane, Eswatini: Central Statistical Office (CSO).

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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Country	Year	Reading	Lower endpoint	Upper endpoint	Publisher note
Eswatini	2000	36.5	34.3	38.8	Multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS): Model full report. Maseru, Swaziland: Central Statistical Office, 2002
Eswatini	2006	29.2	27.2	31.3	Swaziland demographic and health survey 2006-07. Demographic and Health Surveys. Mbabane, Swaziland: Central Statistical Office and Macro International Inc., 2008
Eswatini	2008	40.4	39.3	42.4	Swaziland national nutrition survey report (November 2008). Mbabane, Swaziland: Ministry of Health, 2009.
Eswatini	2010	30.9	28.7	33.3	Swaziland multiple indicator cluster survey 2010 (MICS): Final report. Mbabane, Swaziland, Central Statistical Office and UNICEF, 2011
Eswatini	2014	25.5	23.5	27.7	Swaziland Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2014. Final Report. Mbabane, Swaziland, Central Statistical Office and UNICEF
Eswatini	2021	20	18.3	21.9	Eswatini Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2021-2022, Survey Findings Report. Mbabane, Eswatini: Central Statistical Office (CSO).