Multidimensional analysis of nutritional status among children under 5 years in Africa, 1990–2024
Yonghao Li, Wenping Li, Mengdi Chen, Lulu Zhang · 2026
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Li and colleagues chart thirty-four years of child nutrition across Africa, using World Health Organization observatory data for 46 countries from 1990 to 2024. The first five years of life set trajectories, and Africa carries the world's most fragile nutrition indicators. Their 2026 analysis follows five measures: stunting, underweight, wasting, severe wasting, and overweight. It then zooms into three countries standing for high, middle, and low income: Algeria, Senegal, and Niger, comparing by sex, place, income, and mother's education.
The long trend is double-sided: the four undernutrition measures all fell across the continent, while childhood overweight crept upward. Within Algeria, wasting and overweight clustered in the youngest infants, stunting ran higher in villages and among boys, and underweight concentrated in poor households while overweight concentrated in rich ones. The authors argue policy now fights a two-front war, undernutrition and rising overweight at once.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yonghao Li, Wenping Li, Mengdi Chen, Lulu Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |