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The age at which the gender-related target will be achieved is an illustrative forecast based on past data trends and assuming that these trends will continue into the future.
- Access to safe, voluntary modern methods of contraception is central to women’s life choices, livelihoods and opportunities.
- The indicator used to measure access is the proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15–49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods. It is indicator reference Ind. 3.3 in the 2022 SDG Gender Index and is part of the official SDG 3 indicator framework (SDG 3.7.1).
- The data source is the United Nations Population Division and projections are based, for all countries, on data between 2000 to 2021, or 22 annual data points.
- These figures reflect new UN data that measures access to family planning for both married and unmarried women, thus it is not consistent with the data used earlier in EM2030’s Bending the Curve report.
- The projections to 2030 are based on a linear regression that calculates the best-fitted trend line among the annual values since 2000. This trend is then used to calculate the estimated value in 2030 as well as the estimated year in which the target would be reached given the past trend remains the same into the future.