Fig. 1

Average proportion of children in low- and lower middle-income countries (LMICs) predominately receiving human milk at 0–5 months, by wealth quintile and region, 2010–2017. In LMICs in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, babies from the wealthiest families are substantially less likely to be predominately breastfed than babies from the poorest families. Analysis is based on a subset of 66 countries with recent (2010–2017) data for predominant breastfeeding at 0–5 months. Country income classifications provided in source dataset. Error bars show the 90% confidence interval around the mean. Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, Division of Data Research and Policy. Global UNICEF Global Databases: Infant and Young Child Feeding: Predominant breastfeeding (2019)