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Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months

Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation · 136 countries

This is the share of babies under six months old who are fed only breast milk — no water, formula or other food. The World Health Organization recommends it for the first six months, so unlike most infant-feeding statistics this one has a stated standard to measure against.

This site holds one edition, Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation, read from UNICEF’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation
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1 edition · 136 rows
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CC BY 3.0 IGO

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation136—September 10, 2026CSV

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

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1360
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1360
Survey yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—180
Infants under 6 months exclusively breastfed (%)exclusive_breastfeedingHeadlineThe headline figure: Infants under 6 months exclusively breastfed (%).Number · up to 4 decimals3.497Saint Lucia83.300Burundimiddle 40.7421360

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.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNICEF

  2. 2 · Their file

    Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months (surveys to 2024)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 4 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

Read from UNICEF's own data warehouse (NT_BF_EXBF).

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

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

A credit line

Source: UNICEF, Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNICEF. Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/exclusive-breastfeeding

The publisher’s own citation: UNICEF. UNICEF Data Warehouse. New York: UNICEF.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months: questions and answers

What is the Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months?

This is the share of babies under six months old who are fed only breast milk — no water, formula or other food. The World Health Organization recommends it for the first six months, so unlike most infant-feeding statistics this one has a stated standard to measure against.

Which editions of the Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months can I download?

One: Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does UNICEF rank countries on it?

No. UNICEF publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNICEF. The licence text is linked on this page.

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