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Dataset · UNICEF
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.
Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months · the file
- Newest
- Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 136 rows
- Licence
- 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.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, 2024 compilation | 136 | — | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
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.
| 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 | — | 18 | 0 | |
Infants under 6 months exclusively breastfed (%)exclusive_breastfeedingHeadline | The headline figure: Infants under 6 months exclusively breastfed (%). | Number · up to 4 decimals | 3.497 Saint Lucia83.300 Burundimiddle 40.742 | 136 | 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.
03136 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 51 |
| Americas | 27 |
| Asia | 38 |
| Europe | 10 |
| Oceania | 10 |
| All | 136 |
One edition, covering 136 countries.
Not in this dataset · 88 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 Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Belgium
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Canada
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Chile
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Dominica
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
French Polynesia
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Malta
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Palau
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Russia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
SloveniaSomaliland
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNICEF
2 · Their file
Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months (surveys to 2024)
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: exclusive-breastfeeding-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked September 10, 2026
- 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.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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
07Questions
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.