title: Demand for Family Planning and Demand Satisfied by Modern Methods by Residence
unit_of_measure: percent with demand for family planning and demand satisfied by modern methods
linearized_input: Demand for Family Planning and Demand Satisfied by Modern Methods by Residence | percent with demand for family planning and demand satisfied by modern methods | (Total demand, Angola, 52) (Demand satisfied by modern methods, Angola, 24) (Total demand, Urban, 58) (Demand satisfied by modern methods, Urban, 32) (Total demand, Rural, 40) (Demand satisfied by modern methods, Rural, 5)
table_text: More than one-third (35%) of married women age 15-49 want to delay childbearing (delay a first birth or space another birth) for two or more years. Additionally, 17% of married women do not want any more children Women who want to delay or stop childbearing are said to have a demand for family planning. The total demand for family planning among married women in Angola is 52% The total demand for family planning includes both met and unmet need. Met need is the percent of married women who are currently using family planning. In Angola, 14% of married women use family planning (13% use modern methods and 1% uses traditional methods). Unmet need for family planning is defined as the proportion of married women who want to delay or stop childbearing but are not using family planning. Nearly 4 in 10 married women (38%) have an unmet need for family planning: 26% want to delay childbearing, while 12% want to stop childbearing but are not using family planning. Demand satisfied by modern methods measures the extent to which women who want to delay or stop childbearing are actually using modern family planning methods. The results of the 2015-16 IIMS show that one-quarter of the demand for family planing is satisfied by modern methods. Women in urban areas have a higher demand for family planning (58%) than women in rural areas (40%). Urban women are also more likely to have their demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods (32%) than rural women (5%).
target: More than one-third (35%) of married women age 15-49 want to delay childbearing (delay a first birth or space another birth) for two or more years.