Prevalence of stunting, height for age, female (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) (World Bank WDI)
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Per cent
- Date range 2000 – 2024
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Prevalence of stunting, height for age, female (modeled estimate, % of children under 5) (World Bank WDI)
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- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
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- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, SH.STA.STNT.ME.FE.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb, note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME); World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/joint-child-malnutrition-estimates-unicef-who-wb, note: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME) Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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