Efforts afoot to improve contraceptive prevalence rate
July 15, 2021
Islamabad: The government has allocated Rs1,000 million to the Pakistan Population Fund for expansion and improved coverage of family planning services. Moreover, a PC-I (2021-26) with an estimated cost of Rs2,000 million has been approved for implementation of the National Action Plan for Family Planning in ICT and the federating units. The target is to improve the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate from 34% (2017) to 50% in 2025 and 60% in 2030.
The above data were shared with participants of a national seminar organised by the Ministry of National Health Services Wednesday in connection with ‘Population Week,’ which is being observed from July 11-17 to commemorate ‘World Population Day.’ Pakistan is the world’s 5th most populous country, with a population of over 220 million. It has the highest population growth rate (2.4%) among regional countries, which means an addition of over 3 million people every