Table 1.

Countries selected for the study

Country	Year	Source	National prevalence of stunting (%)	Concentration index	Slope index of inequality
					Deciles	Quintiles
Belize	2006	MICS	22.5	−29.9	−38.8	− 35.9
Belize	2011	MICS	19.3	−28.4	−32.2	−30.8
Belize	2015	MICS	14.9	−27.7	−24.8	−23.9
Bolivia	1998	DHS	32.9	−23.8	−44.8	− 44.8
Bolivia	2003	DHS	32.3	−24.8	−46.3	−47.0
Bolivia	2008	DHS	27.1	−30.1	−47.1	− 47.0
Colombia	1995	DHS	19.5	−22.6	−25.9	−25.9
Colombia	2000	DHS	18.2	−21.7	−23.2	−22.8
Colombia	2005	DHS	15.7	−25.0	−23.5	−23.1
Colombia	2010	DHS	13.2	−18.6	−14.4	−14.1
Dominican Republic	1996	DHS	13.5	−35.2	−28.5	−28.2
Dominican Republic	2002	DHS	11.4	−26.7	−18.3	− 18.1
Dominican Republic	2007	DHS	9.8	−23.8	−14.0	−13.6
Dominican Republic	2013	DHS	6.9	−24.2	−10.1	−10.0
Guatemala	1995	DHS	55.6	−17.2	−53.4	−53.1
Guatemala	1998	DHS	54.0	−20.1	−60.2	−59.8
Guatemala	2008	RHS	48.0	−22.1	−59.1	−60.9
Guatemala	2014	DHS	46.7	−21.7	−57.4	−57.0
Haiti	1994	DHS	36.8	−15.7	−33.1	−32.6
Haiti	2000	DHS	28.7	−10.8	−30.1	−17.6
Haiti	2005	DHS	29.4	−22.7	− 39.1	−38.6
Haiti	2012	DHS	21.9	−20.8	−26.8	−27.1
Haiti	2016	DHS	21.8	−21.9	−28.8	−29.2
Honduras	2005	DHS	30.0	−30.7	−52.4	−52.5
Honduras	2011	DHS	22.7	−32.3	−42.4	− 42.3
Peru	1996	DHS	31.6	−29.9	−53.6	−53.7
Peru	2000	DHS	31.1	−33.4	− 58.8	−59.6
Peru	2009	DHS	23.8	−36.3	− 49.9	−51.3
Peru	2010	DHS	23.3	−36.5	−49.2	− 49.8
Peru	2011	DHS	19.5	−44.1	−51.3	−51.4
Peru	2012	DHS	18.1	−41.1	−44.6	− 45.0
Peru	2013	DHS	17.7	−44.0	−48.2	−48.7
Peru	2014	DHS	14.8	−43.9	− 41.2	−40.6
Peru	2015	DHS	14.9	−42.0	−39.0	−38.7
Peru	2016	DHS	13.1	−42.3	−35.3	−34.5
Suriname	2006	MICS	10.7	−26.5	−16.9	−16.4
Suriname	2010	MICS	8.8	−21.7	−11.6	−11.2