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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2021 Mar 7;397(10282):1388–1399. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00394-9

Figure 3. Mean height-for-age and weight-for-height Z scores by age of children younger than 5 years, from 2000 and 2015.

Figure 3

The dashed horizontal lines at 0 represent the WHO child growth standards. The black horizontal lines correspond to the traditional cutoff Z scores of −2. Data are for 31 low-income countries and 19 middle-income countries, taken from Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (appendix pp 1-5). We refer to data collected from 1996 to 2005 as 2000 data, and data collected from 2010 to 2018 as 2015 data.