Nazifa Rahman of DOT
[2] The use of family planning methods, known as contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR), has increased eight times in the country in the last four decades. According to a survey of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS)-2018, the CPR was only 7.7 percent in 1975 which increased to 63.1 percent in 2017. [3] Family planning experts observed that various awareness campaigns taken by the government and non-government organizations helped increase the contraceptive prevalence rate in the country, reports BSS News.
[4] As a result from July 2018 to June 2019, the government witnessed that 6.75 lac male or female took permanent or long-term family planning methods in just one fiscal year. [5] Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque said the use of different family planning methods have been increased due to various initiatives taken by the present government.
[6] The current preferred family size for women in Bangladesh is 2.1 children, which has declined slightly over the last decade from 2.4 children. The family planning department has taken programmes to reduce the family size by 2 children within 2020.