Fig. 2

Estimated areas with exceedance probabilities of the 40 % prevalence of stunting for children aged 6–59 months using the excursion contour functions of model 1 [38]. The maps were developed from extracting the > =40 % class produced from the surfaces of the simultaneous marginal excursion probabilities. The dark green color shows areas that are equal to or significantly greater than 40 % prevalence of stunting. These areas are of the ‘very high’ prevalence category according to the WHO classification [4, 5]. A = South Central zone, B = North East (Puntland) zone, C = North West (Somaliland) zone. The blue lines represent the two rivers in Somalia (Juba and Shabelle)