Early Initiation of Breastfeeding

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: early-breastfeeding-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Early Initiation of Breastfeeding: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	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	—	136	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	136	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	17	0
Newborns put to the breast within one hour of birth (%)early_breastfeedingHeadline	The headline figure: Newborns put to the breast within one hour of birth (%).	Number · up to 4 decimals	7.749Serbia93.100Eritreamiddle 52.950	136	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	—	4	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 136 countries.

Not in this dataset · 89 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 BarbudaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBelgiumBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDominicaEquatorial GuineaEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKosovoKuwaitLatviaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMaltaMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayPalauPolandPortugalPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Early Initiation of Breastfeeding (surveys to 2024)

   .NT_BF_EIBF

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: early-breastfeeding-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/early-breastfeeding

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

  Early Initiation of Breastfeeding by country

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

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

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