Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: child-dietary-diversity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	115	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	115	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	15	0
Children aged 6-23 months fed from at least 5 of 8 food groups (%)child_dietary_diversityHeadline	The headline figure: Children aged 6-23 months fed from at least 5 of 8 food groups (%).	Number · up to 4 decimals	8.09Guinea-Bissau85.88Serbiamiddle 37.57	115	0
UNICEF observation statusobservation_statusFlag	Whether UNICEF re-analysed the survey's own data for this reading or took the figure from the survey's published report, in UNICEF's words.	Text	—	3	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

One edition, covering 115 countries.

Not in this dataset · 110 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelgiumBermudaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaCabo VerdeCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKosovoKuwaitLatviaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMalaysiaMaltaMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratMoroccoNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPalauPanamaPolandPortugalPuerto RicoRomaniaRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTürkiyeUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months (surveys to 2025)

   .NT_CF_MDD

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: child-dietary-diversity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/child-dietary-diversity

From UNICEF's Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Databases, read from UNICEF's own data warehouse, which carries more decimal places than UNICEF's published workbooks. Each reading is marked as re-analysed by UNICEF or as reported by the survey itself.

• Charted

  Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
  • Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023