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Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation

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Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation covers 115 countries. Serbia is highest, at 85.88; Guinea-Bissau is lowest, at 8.09. The middle country reads 39.36. 6 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months · Latest available · compiled 2025

HighestSerbia

85.88

LowestGuinea-Bissau

8.09

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation, as published. UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 115 countries · select a heading to sort

Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation: every country, as published by UNICEF.
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1SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2019 reading201985.88Reanalysed
2PeruPERSouth America · 2024 reading202484.83Reanalysed
3IranIRNSouthern Asia · 2017 reading201784.00Reported
4EcuadorECUSouth America · 2024 reading202479.75Reanalysed
5UruguayURYSouth America · 2023 reading202379.42Reanalysed
6TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia · 2024 reading202479.04Reanalysed
7Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2016 reading201678.44Reanalysed
8Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2018 reading201875.67Reanalysed
9BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading202374.25Reanalysed
10ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading202272.11Reanalysed
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2025 reading202571.53Reported
12MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia · 2017 reading201771.38Reanalysed
13MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2005 reading, too old to compare200569.70Reanalysed
14BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2019 reading201969.58Reanalysed
15MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2018 reading201866.02Reanalysed
16Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2019 reading201965.77Reanalysed
17KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading202365.74Reanalysed
18TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa · 2023 reading202363.76Reanalysed
19QatarQATWestern Asia · 2023 reading202363.53Reanalysed
20BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading201963.30External Reanalysis
21ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2010 reading, too old to compare201062.72Reanalysed
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2017 reading201760.60External Reanalysis
23MexicoMEXCentral America · 2015 reading201559.44Reanalysed
24GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2015 reading201559.32Reanalysed
25FijiFJIMelanesia · 2021 reading202159.16Reanalysed

02In Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 1Serbia85.88
  2. 2Peru84.83
  3. 3Iran84.00
  4. 4Ecuador79.75
  5. 5Uruguay79.42

Lowest

  1. 115Guinea-Bissau8.09
  2. 114Liberia8.61
  3. 113Kiribati9.30
  4. 112Uganda10.00
  5. 111Guinea11.10

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 39.36. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2025, from 2005 to 2025. 6 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • The position is ours

    UNICEF publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 115 countries has every column.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    UNICEF marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Reanalysed, Reported, External Reanalysis.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UNICEF (2025). Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/child-dietary-diversity/2025

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06Questions

Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest minimum dietary diversity for young children in Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation?

Serbia, at 85.88, of the 115 countries in the file.

How many countries does Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation cover?

115.

Where can I download Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months, 2025 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-10-03, when it was read from the publisher.

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