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Global Nutrition Targets 2025: Policy brief series

January 1, 2014
Factsheets

In 2012, the World Health Assembly Resolution endorsed a comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. This policy brief series outlines a set of six global nutrition targets that by 2025 aim to:

 

  • achieve a 40% reduction in the number of children under-5 who are stunted;
  • achieve a 50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age;
  • achieve a 30% reduction in low birth weight;
  • ensure that there is no increase in childhood overweight;
  • increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months up to at least 50%;
  • reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5%.
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Read the summary and the briefs on stunting, wasting, and breastfeeding.