Stunting prevalence is high at around 50% in Papua New Guinea, while it is below 10% in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Fiji and China (Figure 2.9, left panel). As for wasting, if there is no severe food shortage, the prevalence is usually below 5% even in poor countries, but it is much higher than this threshold in some countries such as India, Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh (Figure 2.9, right panel). On average, the stunting and wasting prevalence across Asian countries was 28% and 8% respectively. In order to reduce under age 5 mortality, countries need to not only implement effective preventive and curative interventions for newborns, children and their mothers during and after pregnancy (see indicator “Infant and child health” in Chapter 3) but also to promote optimal feeding practice (see indicator “Infant and young child feeding” in Chapter 2).