Objectives

Medium Term: ( By Year 2020) Excerpt from draft Population Policy

• Achieve universal access to safe and quality Reproductive Health/Family Planning services
• To increase Contraceptive Prevalence Rate from 28.1 % to 42 %
• Decrease fertility level from 3.9 to 3.3 births per woman
• To reduce unmet need for FP from 30 % to 10 %
• Reduce Population Growth Rate from 2.05 % to 1.8 % per annum

Long Term Objectives:

• Raise contraceptive prevalence rate from 28.1 % to 55.1 % by 2030
• Attain replacement fertility level (2.1 births per woman) by 2035

Reduce Annual Population Growth Rate from 2.05 % to 1.3 % by the year 2035.