Gambia, The · Child Stunting, Under 5 (survey, %)
17.5%2020
Publisher note: The Gambia Demographic and Health Survey 2019- 20. Banjul, The Gambia and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GBoS and ICF
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gambia, The | 1996 | 36.1 | Not reported | Not reported | Report of the progress of the mid-decade goals in the Gambia (MICS), 1996. Banjul: The Republic of The Gambia and UNICEF, 1998 Converted estimate |
| Gambia, The | 2000 | 24.1 | 21.8 | 26.6 | The Gambia multiple indicator cluster survey report, 2000 (MICS). Banjul, The Gambia, 2002 |
| Gambia, The | 2006 | 27.7 | 26.8 | 28.6 | The Gambia Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005/2006 Report. Banjul, The Gambia: GBoS, 2007 |
| Gambia, The | 2010 | 23.4 | 22 | 25 | The Gambia multiple indicator cluster survey 2010 (MICS): Final report. Banjul, The Gambia: GBOS, 2012 |
| Gambia, The | 2012 | 21.1 | 19.8 | 22.6 | National Nutrition Survey in the Gambia using the Standardised Monitoring and Assessment of Relief Transition (SMART) methods |
| Gambia, The | 2013 | 24.6 | 22.5 | 26.8 | The Gambia Demographic and Health Survey 2013. Banjul, The Gambia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GBOS and ICF International, 2014. |
| Gambia, The | 2018 | 19 | 17.9 | 20.1 | The Gambia Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2018, Survey Findings Report. Banjul, The Gambia: The Gambia Bureau of Statistics |
| Gambia, The | 2020 | 17.5 | 15.8 | 19.2 | The Gambia Demographic and Health Survey 2019- 20. Banjul, The Gambia and Rockville, Maryland, USA: GBoS and ICF |
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.