Fig. 1: EBF prevalence (2000–2017) among infants under 6 months and progress towards the 2025 WHO GNT.

a–c, Prevalence of EBF practices at the 5 km × 5 km resolution in 2000 (a), 2010 (b) and 2017 (c). d, Prevalence of EBF at the first administrative subdivision in 2017. e, Overlapping population-weighted lowest and highest 10% of grid cells and weighted AROC in EBF from 2000–2017. f, Overlapping population-weighted quartiles of EBF and relative 95% uncertainty in 2017. Cut-offs for the quartiles were 25.0% (25th percentile), 38.5% (50th percentile) and 52.3% (75th percentile) for the EBF prevalence axis, and 0.500 (25th percentile), 0.902 (50th percentile) and 0.137 (75th percentile) for the relative uncertainty axis (calculated as the absolute range of the uncertainty intervals divided by the estimate). g, Weighted annualized percentage change in EBF prevalence from 2000–2017. h, Grid cell level prevalence of EBF predicted for 2025, projected from 2017 based on AROC between 2000 and 2017. i, Acceleration in the annualized increase in EBF required to meet WHO GNT by 2025. Dark blue pixels were either non-increasing or must accelerate their rate of increase by more than 400% above 2000–2017 rates during 2017–2025 to achieve the target. White pixels require no increase to meet WHO GNT by 2025. Maps reflect administrative boundaries, land cover, lakes and population; gray-colored grid cells had fewer than ten people per 1 km × 1 km grid cell and were classified as ‘barren or sparsely vegetated’, or were not included in this analysis.