Welcome to the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative

These pages will shortly host information about the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in industrialised countries. In the meantime, the status of the BFHI in each country is as below. A link is provided where possible for a country's home page. More information will follow soon.

See also:
UNICEF's International breastfeeding pages
WHO's breastfeeding pages
WHO Europe's Infant Feeding pages

Country No. of Baby Friendly Hospitals % of all maternity units = % of national births*   Country No. of Baby Friendly Hospitals % of all maternity units = % of national births*
Australia
45
13%
19%   Lithuania 6 12%  
Austria
14
13% 
    Luxembourg
2
33%
35%
Belgique
België
0
0%
0%   Macedonia
28
97%
 
Bulgaria 5 4.5% 10%   Malta 0 0% 0%
Canada
3
n/a 
n/a   Netherlands
38
20%
35%
Denmark 11
33% 
22%   New Zealand
18
22%
 
Estonia 0 0% 0%   Norway
36
64% 
77%
Finland
4
12%      Poland 52 11%  
France
5
0.7%
    Portugal 0 0% 0%
Germany
18
1.8% 
    Romania 10 5.5% 12%
Hungary
9
8%
    Russian Federation 162 5% 13%
Iceland
0
0%
0%   Slovakia 5 7%  
Ireland 3
14%
17%   Spain
10
1.1% 
 
Italy
8
1%
1.5%   Sweden
52
100% 
100%
Japan
30
<1%
<1%   Switzerland
59
40%
55%
Korea (Rep.)
29
6.4% 
    Turkey
322
39% 
70%
Latvia
7
22%
21.9%   United Kingdom
43
16% 
16%
          United States of America
46
1.3%
1.4%

*percentage of the country's births taking place in a Baby Friendly hospital

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