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To carry out a meta-analysis to assess the prevalence of four key breastfeeding indicators in four subregions of 29 sub-Saharan African countries.

The 29 countries were categorised into four subregions, and using cross-sectional data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (2010–2015) of these countries prevalence of each of four key breastfeeding indicators was estimated for each of the subregions by carrying out a meta-analysis. Due to the presence of significant heterogeneity among the various surveys (I²>50%), a random-effect analytic model was used, and sensitivity analysis was performed to examine the effects of outliers.

Early initiation of breast feeding, exclusive breast feeding, predominant breast feeding and bottle feeding.

The overall prevalence of early initiation of breast feeding varied between a lowest of 37.84 …