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.

  1. 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

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Lesotho202412.60percent
Jordan202310.80percent
Mozambique202326.60percent
Niger202321.13percent
Peru20238.90percent
Saudi Arabia202321.40percent
Senegal202319.10percent
Tunisia202316.52percent
Bangladesh202210percent
Benin202229.90percent

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