Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women
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Appendix 2<br />
Reproductive health statistics<br />
Table A2.1<br />
Unmet need for family<br />
planning, 1990–95<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1996–2001<br />
Percent<br />
— Not available.<br />
Note: Need for family planning<br />
is the percentage of currently<br />
married <strong>women</strong> with unmet<br />
need for family planning, met<br />
need for family planning,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the total dem<strong>and</strong> for<br />
family planning services.<br />
Unmet need for spacing<br />
includes pregnant <strong>women</strong><br />
whose pregnancy was mistimed,<br />
amenorrheic <strong>women</strong> who are not<br />
using family planning <strong>and</strong> whose<br />
last birth was mistimed, <strong>and</strong><br />
fecund <strong>women</strong> who are neither<br />
pregnant nor amenorrheic <strong>and</strong><br />
who are not using any method<br />
of family planning <strong>and</strong> say they<br />
want to wait two or more years<br />
for their next birth. Also included<br />
are fecund <strong>women</strong> who are<br />
not using any method of family<br />
planning <strong>and</strong> say they are unsure<br />
whether they want another<br />
child or who want another child<br />
but are unsure when to have<br />
the birth unless they say it<br />
would not be a problem if they<br />
discovered they were pregnant<br />
in the next few weeks.<br />
Unmet need for limiting refers<br />
to pregnant <strong>women</strong> whose<br />
pregnancy was unwanted,<br />
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Need for family planning<br />
Early survey period (1990–95) Late survey period (1996–2001)<br />
Region <strong>and</strong> country (survey period)<br />
Ages 15–19 All age groups Ages 15–19 All age groups<br />
East Asia <strong>and</strong> the Pacific<br />
Cambodia (2000) — — 29.5 29.7<br />
Indonesia (1994, 1997) 13.7 10.6 9.1 9.2<br />
Philippines (1993, 1998) 31.1 25.9 30.7 18.8<br />
Viet Nam (1997) 9.7 6.9<br />
Europe <strong>and</strong> Central Asia<br />
Armenia (2000) — — 17.7 11.8<br />
Kazakhstan (1995, 1999) 20.0 15.7 13.0 8.7<br />
Kyrgyzstan (1997) — — 11.5 11.6<br />
Turkey (1993, 1998) 20.2 11.2 20.0 10.1<br />
Turkmenistan (2000) — — 14.3 10.1<br />
Uzbekistan (1996) — — 15.7 13.7<br />
Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean<br />
Bolivia (1994, 1998) 29.4 23.2 33.9 26.1<br />
Brazil a (1991, 1996) 26.2 18.3 19.1 7.3<br />
Colombia (1990, 2000) 22.7 11.1 17.5 6.2<br />
Dominican Republic (1991, 1999) 36.6 17.2 24.6 11.9<br />
Guatemala (1995, 1998/1999) 28.8 24.3 25.4 23.1<br />
Haiti (1994/1995, 2000) 61.6 44.5 58.4 39.8<br />
Nicaragua (1997/1998) — — 27.4 14.7<br />
Paraguay (1990) 19.4 15.0 — —<br />
Peru (1992, 2000) 32.7 15.5 23.6 10.2<br />
Middle East <strong>and</strong> North Africa<br />
Egypt (1992, 2000) 23.8 19.8 9.8 10.7<br />
Jordan (1990, 1997) 23.0 22.2 18.3 14.2<br />
Morocco (1992) 16.6 19.7 — —<br />
Yemen (1997) — — 32.3 38.6<br />
South Asia<br />
Bangladesh (1993/1994, 1999/2000) 21.9 18.1 20.0 15.3<br />
India (1992/1993, 1998/1999) 27.2 16.5 27.1 15.8<br />
Nepal (1996, 2001) 40.5 31.4 35.6 27.8<br />
Pakistan (1990/1991) 33.6 31.8 — —
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