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Turkey (47.3%), Bangladesh (54.1%), and Indonesia (57.9%) have reasonably high prevalence
rates of modern contraceptive use. The modern contraceptive prevalence rates (mCPR) are low
in sub-Saharan OIC countries. Afghanistan (19.8%) and Pakistan (25%) have also low mCPRs.
Bangladesh and Egypt attained high modern contraceptive use rates across all economic status
and educational groups. Inmost other countries, high inequity persists in modern contraceptive
use by socioeconomic and educational background of women. In many sub-Saharan African
countries, mCPR was almost 50% lower in the lowest economic or educational group compared
to the highest group.
Contraceptive use was lower in rural areas in most OIC countries, except Indonesia (Figure 2.
20). Unmet need was most pronounced in sub-Saharan African countries. Unmet need for family
planning is defined as the percentage of women who want to delay or postpone childbearing but
who are not currently using any contraceptive method to prevent pregnancy. In majority of the
countries, unmet need was lowest in the highest wealth quintile and educational groups.
Demand for modern contraceptive satisfied, defined as the percent of women using modern
method among all women using a method or are in unmet need, emerged as an important
indicator for tracking progress in using effective contraceptive methods.46 The results of
differentials in demand satisfied by wealth quintile and education level of women are shown in
Figure 2.23. Large inequity in demand satisfied was most pronounced in subs-Saharan African
countries. Demand satisfied was low inmost rural areas compared to urban areas (Figure 2.24).