6. Family planning: access by all couples to information and services to prevent pregnancies that are too early, too closely spaced, too late or too numerous

Progress made: Increase in contraceptive use; decrease in fertility rates.

57% contraceptive prevalence; 3.2 fertility rate

67% contraceptive prevalence; 2.7 fertility rate

Contraceptive prevalence has increased by 10% globally and doubled in the least developed countries. About two thirds of the world’s women of reproductive age who are in marriage or union are using a contraceptive method. The fertility rate is highest in the Sub-Saharan region, which also has the highest teenage fertility rate.