Share of U.S. infants receiving breast milk in 2017, by gestational and maternal age
This statistic shows the percentage of infants in the U.S. receiving breast milk in 2017, by gestational age and maternal age. In that year, around 74 percent of term infants from mothers aged 19 years and younger received breast milk compared to 88 percent of term infants from mothers aged 40 years and older.