DETERMINANT OF STUNTING AMONG CHILDREN 15-49 MONTHS IN ZAMBIA (ZAMBIA DHS ANALYSIS 2018)

One of the countries with a high prevalence stunting in East Africa is Zambia. Globally, 22% children under 5 years old are stunted or 149.2 million 2020. Stunting Zambia remains above 35% at national level. Research about determine still few and limited. The aim this study was to identify aged 0-59 months method used observational secondary data from 2018 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) Mothers toddlers Respondents 15 - 49 having months. sample size 3804 mothers five. Bivariate analysis using Chi-Square test multivariate Multiple Logistic Regression. results showed that factors related were maternal age (p=0.164), marital status (p=0.187), wealth index (p=0.149), five (p=0.164) order (p=0.077). Marital OR 2.724 (0.846-8.769) most influence occurrence implication more who never married, greater risk stunting.