Iraq · Child Stunting, Under 5 (survey, %)
12.6%2018
Publisher note: Iraq Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2018, Survey Findings Report. Baghdad, Iraq: CSO & KRSO
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 1991 | 27.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Infant and child mortality and nutritional status of Iraqi children after the Gulf conflict: Results of a community-based study. Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; 1992 Converted estimate |
| Iraq | 2000 | 28.1 | 26.8 | 29.4 | Multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) for the year 2000 (detailed report). Baghdad, Republic of Iraq: UNICEF, 2001 |
| Iraq | 2003 | 33.7 | Not reported | Not reported | Baseline food security analysis in Iraq. Baghdad, Iraq: WFP Iraq Country Office, September 2004 Converted estimate |
| Iraq | 2004 | 20 | Not reported | Not reported | Iraq living conditions survey 2004. Baghdad, Iraq: Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology, Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, 2005 Converted estimate |
| Iraq | 2006 | 27.5 | 26.4 | 28.6 | Iraq multiple indicator cluster survey 2006, Final report. Iraq, 2007 |
| Iraq | 2011 | 22.1 | 21.2 | 23 | Iraq multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) 2011: Final report. Baghdad, Iraq: The Central Statistics Organization and the Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office, 2012 |
| Iraq | 2018 | 12.6 | 11.4 | 14 | Iraq Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2018, Survey Findings Report. Baghdad, Iraq: CSO & KRSO |
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.