Breastfeeding prevalence in young children Latin America 2012-2022
Within Latin America and the Caribbean, South America is presumed to be the subregion with the highest prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding among young infants. The share of children aged five months or younger who were exclusively breastfed in South America amounted to close to 47 percent in 2012, well above the regional average, which stood at 43 percent. In turn, in Central America, the share of young infants exclusively breastfed increased from 21.6 percent in 2012 to more than 38 percent in 2022, showing an improvement of 17 percentage points.
