By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.

CSO data

2.2.1 The highest standard deviation from the mean height was 5.2 cm for children aged 2 years.

2.2.2 Overall, in 2012, 80% of 2–4-year-old children were classified as normal weight using International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria. 2% were classified as thin, whereas 15% were defined as overweight and 3% as obese. Overall, in November 2018, at age three years, 19% of children were overweight and a further 5% were obese which, if extrapolated to the full population, indicates that 16,338 three-year-olds were overweight or obese.

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