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WIC Breastfeeding & Maternal Prenatal Participation
Data on breastfeeding initiation and duration among WIC participants.
WIC will maintain at least 3 years of data on our website. For WIC local agency staff, previous years can be found in the appropriate ANNUAL REPORTS folder in Infoview.
On this page:
Statewide Trends
Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration by Prenatal WIC Participation
Breastfeeding by Location
Data by Location
Benchmarks for Breastfeeding Outcomes (PDF)
Suggested citation: Minnesota WIC Information System. Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Minnesota WIC Infants Born During Selected Time Period by Race and Ethnicity. Minnesota WIC Program: 2025.
Methodology: Location and Race and Ethnicity (PDF)
Location is where infants first enrolled in WIC. Counts and percentages are based on number of infants on whom breastfeeding information was collected.
* Totals and numbers breastfeeding < 5 are suppressed. Percentages are not calculated for agencies with < 30 participants.
When multiple years are selected, map totals are cumulative.
Note: As the birth cohort matures and participants are interviewed at their next WIC visit, numbers for the most recent years increase and rates may change. Most recent years’ data are considered preliminary until year-end numbers are finalized.
2022 data were finalized in June of 2024.
2023 and 2024 data are preliminary, most recently updated February 2025.
Statewide Trends
Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration by Prenatal WIC Participation
Breastfeeding by Location
Data by Location
Downloadable file of WIC breastfeeding data and prenatal WIC participation by County (CSV)
Downloadable file of WIC breastfeeding data by prenatal WIC participation by City (CSV)