Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices - Part III Country Profiles

This publication results from the collaboration of several organisations. This is a series of documents on indicators to assess infant and young children feeding. They include an operational guide on measurement issues and an update on the indicator values for 54 countries using data from Demographic and Health Surveys.

This third document presents data on indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices for 46 countries, based on demographic and health surveys conducted between 2002 and 2008. The indicator values were calculated using new and updated definitions (the ones published by WHO and partners in 2008). Some values have not been calculated before and therefore provide a baseline for tracking progress in infant and young child nutrition in the future.        

WHO, UNICEF, USAID, AED, UCDAVIS, IFPRI - 2008