Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed exclusively through age 6 months — Data - Healthy People 2030

Status: Little or no detectable change

Most Recent Data:
25.4 percent (2020)

Target:
42.4 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
24.9 percent of infants born in 2015 were breastfed exclusively through 6 months of age

Demographic Group

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Population	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	24.9 CI 23.8 / 26.1 SE 0.595	25.4 CI 24.1 / 26.7 SE 0.667	25.6 CI 24.3 / 26.8 SE 0.637	25.8 CI 24.8 / 26.8 SE 0.526	24.9 CI 23.9 / 26.0 SE 0.558	25.4 CI 24.3 / 26.5 SE 0.542

Data Source: National Immunization Survey - Child (NIS-Child), CDC/NCIRD

Infants breastfed exclusively through 6 months by

#: Standard errors and confidence intervals are not available for this population group.

†: Target is not applicable for this demographic group.

DSU: Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

DNA: Data have not been analyzed.

DNC: Data for specific population not collected.

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