Birth Rate The number of births per 1,000 population in a given year
Contraception Any of the various ways that individuals and couples can use to prevent or delay a pregnancy.
Contraceptive Prevalence
The percentage of couples using a contraceptive method, either modern or traditional.
Family Planning The ability of individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births. Family planning is achieved through contraception defined as any means capable of preventing pregnancy. Family planning also included the treatment of involuntary infertility.
Fertility Regulation
The process by which individuals and couples regulate their fertility. Methods used for this purpose can include, among others, delaying child-bearing, using contraception, seeking treatment for infertility, interrupting unwanted
pregnancies and, in the case of mothers with an infant or a small child, breast- feeding
Fertility (replacement level)
The level of fertility or number of children born to each woman which leads to a stable population size, typically about 2.1 children per woman
Fertility Rate The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.
Infant Mortality Rate The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births.
Infertility The inability to conceive
Live Births The complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any evidence of life.
Maternal Death The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.
Midwife A person who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery educational program duly recognized in the country in which it is located.
Reproductive Health The idea that people are able to have responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this are the right of men and women to be informed of and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of fertility regulation of their choice, and the right of access to appropriate health care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant.
Unmet need for family planning
The number of fertile married women of reproductive age who are sexually active but do not want children or want to postpone childbearing by at least 2 years and are not using any method of contraception.
Sources Definitions and Indicators in Family Planning, Maternal & Child Health, and Reproductive Health, World Health Organization, 2001.
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