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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% |
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| 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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