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

6.0%2018

Publisher note: 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, T.R. Presidency of Turkey Directorate of Strategy and Budget and TÜBİTAK, Ankara, Turkey.

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 independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
Country	Year	Reading	Lower endpoint	Upper endpoint	Publisher note
Turkiye	1993	23.6	21.5	25.7	Turkey demographic and health survey, 1993. Demographic and Health Surveys. Ankara, Turkey, 1994
Turkiye	1998	18.8	16.9	21	Turkish demographic and health survey 1998. Demographic and Health Surveys. Hacettepe University, Institute of Population Studies. Ankara, Turkey, 1999
Turkiye	2004	15.2	13.8	16.8	Demographic and health survey, 2003. Ankara, Turkey: Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, MoH General Directorate of Mother and Child Health and Family Planning, State Planning Organization and the EU, 2004
Turkiye	2008	12.5	10.9	14.4	Turkey Demographic and Health Survey 2008. Ankara, Turkey: Institute of Population Studies, Hacettepe University.
Turkiye	2013	10	8.7	11.5	2013 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey Ankara, Turkey: Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, T.R. Ministry of Development and TÜBYTAK, 2014.
Turkiye	2018	6	4.9	7.3	2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, T.R. Presidency of Turkey Directorate of Strategy and Budget and TÜBİTAK, Ankara, Turkey.