Table 1.

Number of annual cases of morbidity in women and children attributable to not breastfeeding by region and country income group

Number of cases of morbidity attributable to not breastfeeding
Regions	Child diarrhoea (0–23 months)	Child ARI/ pneumonia (0–23)	Childhood obesity	Breast cancer in mothers	Ovarian Cancer in mothers	Type II diabetes
East Asia and Pacific	19 533 482	1 058 553	374 405	54 393	9 905	389 006
Europe and Central Asia	3 514 920	357 835	69 231	11 016	3 214	52 077
Middle East and North Africa	12 704 537	716 047	168 568	8379	902	101 441
Latin America and Caribbean	13 160 409	778 792	134 192	18 254	3 355	118 363
North America	33 571	64 739	0	0	0	0
South Asia	56 056 468	3 346 020	74 249	14 051	2435	121 620
Sub-Saharan Africa	60 843 179	2 317 553	154 311	11 711	1745	75 009
High income	335 534	86 075	9362	3249	728	15 719
Upper-middle-income	24 816 631	1 706 300	528 011	68 921	12 696	494 165
Lower-middle-income	99 358 380	5 375 448	356 162	39 297	7230	313 822
Low income	41 336 021	1 471 716	81 421	6337	902	33 809
Total	165 846 566	8 639 539	974 956	117 804	21 556	857 515