Sri Lanka Tops Among 97 Countries in Breast Feeding support Policies and Program; India at 78th Position

Sri Lanka Tops Among 97 Countries in Breast Feeding support Policies and Program; India at 78th Position

• Sri Lanka has emerged at top position among 97 countries globally on breastfeeding rate according to a new survey conducted by the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi).
• Sri Lanka has scored 91 out of 100 points and is the only country to earn a green color code, which implies best level of performance.
• India in the rank: India has been ranked at 78th position with a score of 45, with yellow code.
• Lowest Ranking country: Libya is the lowest ranking country with a score of 19 and red color code
• The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi), launched in 2004, assists countries to assess the status of and benchmark the progress in implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
• The WBTi report is based on ten parameters of policy and programmes to rank countries. Each parameter has a score of 10.
• Based on the score, each country gets the colour code as Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green in ascending order of performance based on the WBTi guideline. Green denotes the best level of performance.