Unmet need for contraception
Unmet need for contraception is the percentage of fertile, married women of reproductive age who do not want to become pregnant and are not using contraception.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 151
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
United Nations
Household surveys, United Nations (UN), note: Household surveys, including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Largely compiled by United Nations Population Division., publisher: UN Population Division
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World Bank
World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 2024 | 12.60 | percent |
| Jordan | 2023 | 10.80 | percent |
| Mozambique | 2023 | 26.60 | percent |
| Niger | 2023 | 21.13 | percent |
| Peru | 2023 | 8.90 | percent |
| Saudi Arabia | 2023 | 21.40 | percent |
| Senegal | 2023 | 19.10 | percent |
| Tunisia | 2023 | 16.52 | percent |
| Bangladesh | 2022 | 10 | percent |
| Benin | 2022 | 29.90 | percent |
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