Share of U.S. infants receiving breast milk in 2017, by gestational age

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John Elflein,
Jun 20, 2019
This statistic shows the percentage of infants in the U.S. receiving breast milk in 2017, by gestational age. In that year, around 71 percent of extremely preterm infants received breast milk compared to 85 percent of term infants.

Percentage of infants receiving breast milk in the U.S. in 2017, by gestational age

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June 2019

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2017

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