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Niger: Early initiation of breastfeeding
52.90percent · 2012
Early initiation of breastfeeding (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator NUTRITION_570. Annual figures for Niger from 1992 to 2012.
Every year
| Year | Value (percent) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 52.9 | |
| 2010 | 42.4 | |
| 2009 | 40.4 | |
| 2007 | 25.3 | |
| 2006 | 46.6 | |
| 1998 | 27.6 | |
| 1992 | 20.2 |
Source
Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.
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World Health Organization (2026). Early initiation of breastfeeding. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-nutrition-570 (accessed 2026-11-10). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
Early initiation of breastfeeding in other countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Moldova, Republic of
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Lucia
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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