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Ethiopia: Infants exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life
58.80percent · 2019
Infants exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator WHOSIS_000006. Annual figures for Ethiopia from 2000 to 2019.
Every year
| Year | Value (percent) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 58.8 | |
| 2016 | 56.5 | |
| 2011 | 52 | |
| 2005 | 48.8 | |
| 2000 | 54.1 |
Source
Published by World Health Organization, produced by DATASOURCE_NUT_NGA2018DHS, DATASOURCE_NUT_PAK2018DHS, DATASOURCE_NUT_TCD2019SMART. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-08.
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World Health Organization (2026). Infants exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-whosis-000006 (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.
Infants exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life in other countries
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- Dominican Republic
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- Fiji
- Gabon
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- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
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- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Moldova, Republic of
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine, State of
- Panama
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