Breastfeeding in India

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Percentage of Initiation of Breastfeeding within 1 hour

(RANKING OF STATES OF INDIA )

Rank State %
1st Mizoram 66.4
2nd Goa 59.4
3rd Tamil Nadu 58.8
4th Arunachal Pradesh 58.6
5th Meghalaya 57.8
5th Manipur 57.8
6th Kerala 56.5
7th Orissa 54.8
8th Nagaland 54.2
9th Maharashtra 52
10th Assam 50.9
11th Himachal Pradesh 45.4
12th Sikkim 42.9
13th Karnataka 35.7
14th Tripura 34.6
15th Uttaranchal 33.5
16th Jammu & Kashmir 31.6
17th Gujarat 27.8
18th Chattisgarh 25.0
19th Andhra Pradesh 24.6
20th West Bengal 23.5
21st Haryana 22.1
22nd Delhi 21.0
23rd Madhya Pradesh 15.9
24th Rajasthan 14.1
25th Punjab 12.7
26th Jharkhand 10.7
27th Uttar Pradesh 7.3
28th Bihar 3.7
India 24.5

Source: National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) http://www.nfhsindia.org/