Child stunting is when a child is prevented from growing or developing properly. This causes children to have their physical and neurological growth privileges taken away. Otherwise reworded as they are shorter than the standard height for their age and they also have a lower IQ than most children their age.
Child stunting develops in an infant's body when they are not fed the proper nutritions in the first 1000 days of their life. It is especially important for an infant because that is when the mind and body is still growing.
No, it is not. If you experience child stunting as an infant, it will persist in your system forever.
These statistics are for Indonesia alone.
- The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia writes that 1 in 4 children or otherwise 27.7% of children were stunted in 2019.
- The WHO states that more than 7 million children solely under the age of 5 are stunted.