Appendix 3: Countries on track for the 2025 global nutrition targets

The 2020 Global Nutrition Report reports on country-level progress towards eight of the ten 2025 global nutrition targets: anaemia, low birthweight, exclusive breastfeeding, childhood stunting, childhood wasting, childhood overweight (including obesity), adult obesity (men, women) and adult diabetes (men, women). Progress is not assessed at the country level for salt intake and raised blood pressure, due to lack of comparable projections.

Our assessment includes the best available data for 194 countries from various sources (see Appendix 2 for details of the methods and sources used to assess progress towards the different targets).

Table A3 details which countries are on track (i.e. on course) to meet either none, or at least one, two, three or four of the targets; four is the maximum number of targets any country is on track to meet. It is worth noting that data availability and quality differ across indicators because of varying methodologies and modelling approaches. It is, therefore, possible that some countries may have made progress towards the targets that is not reflected in these analyses. For instance, data for the maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) indicators, excluding anaemia and low birth weight, is based on surveys that mostly cover low-income and lower-middle-income countries, thus the full picture is incomplete. Data for anaemia, low birth weight and the diet-related non-communicable disease (NCD) targets is available for all countries, but based on modelled estimates, which may not accurately represent actual country-level status.