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Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2024; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation covers 136 countries. Turkmenistan is highest, at 93.000; Serbia is lowest, at 7.749. The middle country reads 53.092. 16 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Early Initiation of Breastfeeding · Latest available · compiled 2024

HighestTurkmenistan

93.000

LowestSerbia

7.749

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 Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 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 136 countries · select a heading to sort

Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation: every country, as published by UNICEF.
derived
1EritreaERIEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare201093.100Reported
2TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia · 2022 reading202293.000Reported
3Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2022 reading202290.700Adjusted
4BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2024 reading202489.300Reported
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2021 reading202188.367Reanalysed
6RwandaRWAEastern Africa · 2020 reading202085.338Reanalysed
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2015 reading201583.289Reanalysed
8OmanOMNWestern Asia · 2017 reading201782.000Reported
9BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2023 reading202381.800Reported
10UgandaUGAEastern Africa · 2022 reading202281.500Reported
11IranIRNSouthern Asia · 2017 reading201780.600Reported
12BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading202379.475Reanalysed
13Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia · 2015 reading201578.900Reported
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa · 2022 reading202277.097Reanalysed
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading202373.217Reanalysed
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2019 reading201971.978Reanalysed
17MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2023 reading202371.900Reported
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2018 reading201871.300Reported
19NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa · 2013 reading, too old to compare201371.221Reanalysed
20Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa · 2018 reading201871.100Reported
21NigerNERWestern Africa · 2022 reading202270.703Reanalysed
22GabonGABMiddle Africa · 2020 reading202070.333Reanalysed
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2022 reading202270.200Reported
24NauruNRUMicronesia · 2023 reading202369.737Reanalysed
25SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading201468.717Reanalysed

02In Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 2Turkmenistan93.000
  2. 3Sri Lanka90.700
  3. 4Burundi89.300
  4. 5Sierra Leone88.367
  5. 6Rwanda85.338

Lowest

  1. 136Serbia7.749
  2. 135North Macedonia9.505
  3. 134Azerbaijan13.717
  4. 133Comoros16.778
  5. 132Pakistan19.560

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 53.092. “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 2024, from 1995 to 2024. 16 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 136 countries has every column.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    UNICEF marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Reported, Adjusted, Reanalysed, 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 (2024). Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/early-breastfeeding/2024

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06Questions

Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest early initiation of breastfeeding in Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation?

Turkmenistan, at 93.000, of the 136 countries in the file.

How many countries does Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation cover?

136.

Where can I download Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation?

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

Is Early Initiation of Breastfeeding, 2024 compilation the newest?

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

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