Table 5. Infant and young child feeding practices in China, neighbouring countries, Brazil and South Africa, 2003–2010.

Country	Survey year	Initiated breastfeeding early (%)	Aged less than 6 months and exclusively breastfed (%)	Solids introduced at age 6–8 months (%)	Still breastfed at age 12–15 months (%)	Still breastfed at age 20–23 months (%)
China (12 provinces in present survey)	2010	59	29	90	56	9
China (national survey)	2008	41	16 and 30a	43b	37	ND
South-eastern Asia
Cambodia	2010	65	74	82	83	43
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2006	30	26	70	82	48
Myanmar	2009–2010	76	24	81	91	65
Thailand	2009	50c	15	ND	ND	ND
Viet Nam	2006	58	17	70	78	23
South Asia
Bangladesh	2007	43	43	74	95	91
Bhutan	2010	59	49	67	93	66
India	2005–2006	41c	46	57	88	77
Nepal	2006	35	53	75	98	95
Pakistan	2006–2007	29	37	36	79	55
Central and northern Asia
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	2004	18c	65	31	67	37
Kazakhstan	2006	64	17	39	57	16
Kyrgyzstan	2006	65	32	49	68	26
Mongolia	2005	81c	57	57	82	65
Tajikistan	2004–2005	57c	25	15	75	34
Asia, median	NA	57	37	67	82	52
Other BRICSd nations
Brazil	2006	43	40	70	50	25
South Africa	2003	61	8	49	66	31
BRICS nations excluding China and the Russian Federation,e median	NA	48	31	59	68	44

NA, not applicable; ND, not determined.

^a The rate was 16% in urban areas and 30% in rural areas.

^b The Chinese National Health Services Survey used an older, narrower definition of complementary feeding, which resulted in a lower figure for this measure.

^c Data on the early initiation of breastfeeding were not derived from the same survey that provided data on the other four indicators. The alternative surveys were carried out in: 2009 in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; 2007 to 2008 in India: 2008 in Mongolia; 2009 in Tajikistan; and 2005 to 2006 in Thailand.

^d The BRICS nations comprise Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa.

^e Data were not available for the Russian Federation.