Babies breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks, England
Official statistics
The share of babies in England totally or partially breastfed at their 6 to 8 week review, each quarter and over the year to March, from OHID's breastfeeding statistics, for the councils whose returns pass its validation.
Totally or partially breastfed
57.3%
2025/26 · over the year April 2025 to March 2026, with a 95% confidence interval of 57.2% to 57.4%
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:02 UTCSource: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
4 periods, newest first
| Period | Totally or partially breastfed |
|---|---|
| Jan–Mar 2026 | 57.5% |
| Oct–Dec 2025 | 57.6% |
| Jul–Sep 2025 | 57.6% |
| Apr–Jun 2025 | 56.6% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/breastfeeding-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:49 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/breastfeeding-at-6-to-8-weeks-data-for-2025-to-2026SHA-256 a404d3535d10355d4748ddfb0fd5b7005845372a8a3eb94f2590a7f3e78a93cf · 13,311 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ae0888b16428df5376061c5/data-tables-breastfeeding-at-6-to-8-weeks-2025-to-2026.odsSHA-256 0c8056776a059418211bd153a8b819cc233a3d2f24656f74863ac7ce1562a5dd · 126,905 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:02 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:02 UTC; 4 of 4 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:49:50Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 4 of 4 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's annual match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 4 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 4 of 4 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's annual match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-03-31 ended 223 days before retrieval (limit 650), from Data tables: breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks, April 2025 to March 2026 |
| Pass | The Headline_statistics sheet gives the year's figure | 1 of 1 cases of the years' Headline_statistics figures are the headline's, Table 7's |
| Pass | Totally and partially breastfed make up those breastfed | 1 of 1 cases of the years' babies totally and partially breastfed add up to those breastfed within 1e-06 (1 exactly) |
| Pass | Those breastfed and not at all make up those known | 1 of 1 cases of the years' babies breastfed and not breastfed add up to those whose status was known within 1e-06 (1 exactly) |
| Pass | Each share is of the babies due a review | 5 of 5 cases of the year's shares are its babies over those due a review within 1e-09 (5 exactly) |
| Pass | The year's figure lies in its interval | 0.572999 within 0.571659 to 0.574337 |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/breastfeeding-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Babies totally or partially breastfed at their 6 to 8 week health visitor review, as a share of the babies due a review, as OHID gives them as fractions, shown here as percentages.
- England's figures are OHID's aggregate of the local councils whose returns passed its first stage of validation, so the councils counted can change from one quarter or year to the next.