Family planning in Bangladesh

Family planning in Bangladesh is carried out by government agencies and supported by non-government organisations.

[10] Since independence Bangladesh has reduced its total fertility rate (TFR) to 2.01, which means that women have 2.01 children on average.

In 1976, the government of Bangladesh declared rapid population growth rate as the nation's number one problem.

[6] In 1975, the total fertility rate was 6.3, which by 2011 was reduced to 2.3 according to the data collected by the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2011.

[16] Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2014 found that 33% of 15 to 19 year olds were pregnant.

[20] Bangladesh's Penal Code places the age of consent at 14, though sex before marriage is frowned upon socially.

But 31% of district hospitals and 75% of private facilities still do not provide family planning methods.

Combined or progestin-only oral pills and male condoms (85% each) are the most commonly provided temporary modern methods.

One-fourth of all facilities provide IUCDs, and a small proportion (6%) offer one or two-rod implants.