Global nutrition targets 2025: policy brief series

Overview

Recognizing that accelerated global action is needed to address the pervasive and corrosive problem of the double burden of malnutrition, in 2012 the World Health Assembly Resolution 65.6 endorsed a Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition, which specified 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%.