Inequality in the proportion of women aged 15–49 years who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods by indicator, region and subgroup, 2017
Relative measure (unweighted pairwise ratio) | Absolute measure (unweighted average absolute mean difference from highest subgroup category) | Population impact measure (number of additional modern contraceptive users if all were like the highest subgroup category (000 s)) | ||||||||||
Age | Wealth | Residence | Parity | Age | Wealth | Residence | Parity | Age | Wealth | Residence | Parity | |
Africa | ||||||||||||
Eastern Africa | 1.51 | 1.29 | 1.21 | 1.26 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 2065 | 2897 | 3474 | 570 |
Middle Africa | 1.19 | 2.53 | 1.96 | 1.68 | 0.06 | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 570 | 1250 | 1197 | 1722 |
Western Africa | 1.24 | 2.31 | 1.53 | 1.39 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 593 | 3965 | 2473 | 3240 |
Northern Africa | 1.84 | 1.06 | 1.04 | 2.19 | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.39 | 412 | 359 | 327 | 294 |
Asia | ||||||||||||
South Asia | 2.20 | 1.15 | 1.03 | 2.08 | 0.29 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.38 | 22 188 | 5787 | 3668 | 3685 |
Southeast Asia | 1.34 | 1.09 | 1.05 | 1.61 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.28 | 2365 | 2063 | 1133 | 866 |
Western Asia | 1.69 | 1.37 | 1.25 | 1.70 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.22 | 454 | 1423 | 637 | 249 |
Latin America and the Caribbean | ||||||||||||
Caribbean | 1.30 | 1.07 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 343 | 111 | 198 | 112 |
Central America | 1.69 | 1.07 | 1.04 | 1.58 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.29 | 2155 | 564 | 228 | 864 |
South America | 1.27 | 1.19 | 1.09 | 1.11 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 1963 | 2701 | 685 | 1250 |
Highlighted cells indicate the subgroup with the highest inequality within a region for each measure of inequality used. Subgroup categories are as follows: age (15–19, 20–24, 25–34 and 35–49 years), household wealth (five quintiles), residence (rural or urban) and parity (0 births or one or more births).