Nutrition and Food Safety
The Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) Department is addressing the burden of disease from physical, chemical and microbial hazards in food and unhealthy diets, maternal and child malnutrition, overweight and obesity.
Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS)
Bringing together all existing WHO Global Nutrition Databases dynamically, as well as other existing food and nutrition-related data from partner agencies, NLiS is a web-based tool which provides nutrition and nutrition-related health and development data in the form of automated country profiles and user-defined downloadable data. Data presented in the country profiles are structured by the UNICEF conceptual framework for causes of malnutrition and intend to give an overview snapshot of a country's nutrition, health, and development at the national level.
NLiS draws data for the country profiles from available databases. Sources include the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), UN Statistics Division, UN Development Programme (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). More recent data might be available from other sources, including in-country sources.
Country profile
The country profiles provide the most recent data contributing to a comprehensive view of the nutrition status, as well the nutrition-related health and development indicators in a country.
Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework
WHO member states have endorsed the Global Nutrition Targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition. The Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework (GNMF) helps countries monitor progress towards the Global Targets, measuring the progress of primary and intermediate outcomes, and monitoring programmes and policies that can influence either directly or indirectly in the pathways of one or more primary outcomes. This country profile provides the most recent data available for each of the GNMF indicators.
NLiS data search
User is able to download data filtering for indicators, countries and years. Data can be exported.
