Malnutrition remains a serious public health concern globally. Progress is slow and uneven, with significant disparities between and within countries. These disparities reveal deep-rooted socioeconomic, cultural, and geographical inequalities, hindering progress. This paper aimed to unpack the enduring inequities, their drivers, and how they relate to nutrition outcomes. Multiple forms of inequalities often co-occur, magnifying the burden of malnutrition among the most vulnerable. Economic marginalization, remoteness, and inequities in access to education, health care, and food, overlap and compound, creating a reinforcing cycle of deprivation and malnutrition. Ending malnutrition requires addressing deeply entrenched inequities rooted in historical injustices, sociocultural norms, economic disparities, and systemic power imbalances.