Indicators

Prevalence rate (%) of children and adolescents 5-19 years of age with Z-scores defined as BMI-for-age index less than -2 standard deviations from the median BMI of a reference population of children/adolescents of the same age and/or having bilateral pitting oedema

Prevalence rate (%) of older people with a MUAC below 210mm or having bilateral pitting oedema

Proportion of children 24-59 months who are eating 3 meals a day or more

Proportion of children 24-59 months who receive foods from 4 or more food groups

Qualitative assessment of nutritional risk of common micronutrient deficiencies (anaemia, iodine deficiency, vitamin A deficiency (night blindness), scurvy, beri beri, vitamin D deficiency) based on composite indicator analysis on prevalence rates, diet analysis, water quality and diarrheal disease, case finding

Proportion of children 6 - 59 months having received vitamin A in previous 6 months

Proportion of children 6-59 months of age receiving micronutrient supplements that contain adequate iron

Proportion of pregnant women having received iron-folic acid contained supplementation daily in previous 6 months/during pregnancy

Proportion households using adequately iodized salt in previous 6 months

(1)Proportion of children below five years of age with sub-clinical vitamin A deficiency (2) Proportion of women of reproductive age with clinical vitamin A deficiency

Proportion of children below five years of age with Hb concentration of <11 g/dL Proportion of women in reproductive age with Hb concentration of <12 g/dL

Median urinary iodine concentration (?g/L) in children aged 6-12 years 

Proportion of children 0-59 months whose caregiver reported an illness in the previous 2 weeks

The rate of death among children below of 5 years of age in the population

Proportion of children 0-23 months who were put to the breast within one hour of birth.

Proportion of infants 0-5 months of age who are fed exclusively with breast milk

Proportion of children 12-15 months of age and 20-23 months of age who are fed breast milk

Proportion of children born in the last 24 months who were ever breastfed

Proportion of infants 0-5 months of age who are predominantly breastfed

Proportion of children 0-23 months of age who are fed with a bottle

Proportion of children 6-23 months of age who receive foods from 4 or more food groups

Proportion of children 6-23 months who received solid, semi-solid or soft foods the minimum number of times or more.

Proportion of children 6-23 months of age who receive a minimum acceptable diet (apart from breast milk)

Proportion of children 6-8 months of age who received solid, semi-solid or soft foods during the previous day

Proportion of infants 0<12 months and 12<24 months not breastfed