Nutrition Report

The 2017 global nutrition report has almost every country in the world identified as facing a serious nutritional challenge.

The annual report found 88% of all the countries surveyed face a serious burden of two or three forms of malnutrition, including childhood stunting, anaemia in women of childbearing age, and/or overweight in women.

Although the number of children under five who are chronically or acutely malnourished has fallen in many countries, the data show the rate of decline is not rapid enough to meet internationally agreed targets. At the other end of the spectrum, the “inexorable rise” in obesity continues, with 2 billion adults obese or overweight and 41 million children overweight.

The likelihood of meeting global targets to halt the rise in obesity and diabetes by 2025 is less than 1%.

The report found that spending by donors on under-nutrition fell as a proportion of official development assistance, from 0.57% in 2014 to 0.5% in 2015.