Reduce severe and moderate under-5 malnutrition by 50%

Trend

17% reduction in developing countries

1990

32% in developing countries

2000

27% in developing countries

2010 goal

33% reduction,with special attention to children under two education

Comments

The total number of malnourished children in developing countries fell from 177 million to 149 million.

Sources: United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General, ‘We the Children: End-decade review of the follow-up to the World Summit for Children’, A/S-27/3, United Nations, New York, 4 May 2001; United Nations, Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children,‘A world fit for children’, Revised draft outcome document A/AC-256/ CRP.6/Rev. 3, United Nations, New York, June 2001.

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