Guatemala has the highest prevalence of stunting among under-five children in Latin America.  An analysis of five national health surveys carried out between 1995 and 2014 showed that stunting prevalence declined by 9.8 percentage points during the period. Children in rural areas were consistently more stunted than those in urban areas, but rural indigenous children were significantly worse than any other group. Indigenous children in the poorest tertile of family wealth consistently presented the highest stunting prevalence, compared to all other groups. In term of stunting prevalence, poor and rural indigenous children are twenty years behind nonindigenous children with similar characteristics. Click here for more information.