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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Data sheet charts family planning progress.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

POPULATION TODAY. 1997 Jun;25(6):5.

ABSTRACT

Monitoring Family Planning Programs 1996, a wallchart produced by the Carolina Population Center at the University

of Chapel Hill in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, compiles most of the available data regarding

family planning programs in 96 developing countries and presents the evaluation indicators in a comparative

overview. Data on government spending, types of services available, facilities, and the number of new contraceptive

users served each year are included. Key findings include the following information. Although most governments

are concerned about high birth rates (80% of governments in Africa and over 50% of governments in Latin America),

West Asian governments (Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, and Syria) consider the high fertility rates there to be satisfactory and

have not promoted family planning. In East Asia, where family planning has been established for decades, fertility

has decreased below replacement level. In spite of governmental concern, family planning effort lags in many

countries; of the 95 countries with family planning effort scores, only 41 received moderate or strong scores (50-92%

of the maximum score possible). These included 62% of Latin American countries, 23% of African countries, and

just over 50% of Asian countries. National and international spending is often insufficient. The highest annual per

capita expenditure by a government on family planning services occurs in Mauritius (US $1.65 per person);

Afghanistan, Brazil, the Congo, Honduras, Iran, Paraguay, Uganda, and Zaire spend less than US $0.01 per person.

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mauritius, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe spend a total per capita, from all sources, of US $1 or

more. Almost 50% of the married women in developing countries use a modern form of contraception; 17% of

married women of reproductive age in Africa do so (11% in sub-Saharan Africa, and 36% in North Africa).

Contraceptive prevalence in Latin America is 53%; in Asia it ranges from 34% in South Central Asia to 78% in East

Asia. Service providers may be too few in number. The ratio of married women, ages 15-44, per staff member ranges

from 111,235 in the Ivory Coast to 109 in Viet Nam. Of the 38 countries that have more than 1000 women per staff

member, 16 are in Africa, 12 are in Latin America, and 10 are in Asia. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 533-

06)

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source of this article is "POPULATION TODAY. 1997 Jun;25(6):5.". This article was published in 1997 in English

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