The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) promotes and supports breastfeeding as an important part of the nutrition service benefits that the WIC program provides to meet its mission of safeguarding the health of low-income women, infants and children. These reports are a compilation of fiscal year (FY) breastfeeding performance measurements, based on program participation data of the number of partially and fully breastfed infants for each WIC state and local agency.
The Child Nutrition Act requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to annually compile and publish breastfeeding performance measurements. The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service uses this data to monitor breastfeeding trends and to help identify exemplary performance of WIC state and local agencies in breastfeeding and make awards to such agencies, e.g., WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence and WIC Breastfeeding Performance Bonus Awards.
Interactive Dashboard
An interactive dashboard is available to provide a customizable view of WIC breastfeeding data. This dashboard replaces the former static PDF reports (linked below) and allows users to filter, view, and download data in real time. The dashboard includes information from FY 2010 through the most recent year available and is updated annually.
Static Reports
- FY 2024 data onward please use the dashboard
- FY 2023 Report (.pdf)
- FY 2022 Report (.pdf)
- FY 2021 Report (.pdf)
- FY 2020 Report (.pdf)