Nutrition and Food Safety
The Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) aims to address the burden of unhealthy diets, malnutrition and foodborne diseases, by providing guidelines, integrated services, and technical support, embedding nutrition and food safety into health, economic, and environmental agendas, and promoting access to knowledge and care for everyone.

Past JME editions

Please note that the latest estimates supersede former analyses and results published by the UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank Group.

Joint malnutrition estimate 2017 edition publication cover

The inter-agency team released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (May 2017 edition) using the...

joint malnutrition estimate 2016 edition publication cover

In September 2016 the inter-agency team released new joint estimates of child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (2016 edition)....

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank Group released updated joint child malnutrition estimates for the...

joint malnutrition estimate 2011 edition publication cover

UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank released an updated joint dataset on child malnutrition indicators (stunting, wasting, severe wasting, overweight and underweight)...

joint malnutrition estimate 2011 edition publication cover

On September 20, 2013 UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank updated their joint database on child malnutrition and released new global and regional estimates...