PMA2020, Round 6, 2018

Family planning in PMA2020/Ethiopia Round 6 (June–July 2018; ): modern contraceptive prevalence among married women aged 15–49 rose to 37.8% — the highest across the six rounds — with long-acting/permanent methods reaching 11.0%, while unmet need dropped to 20.6% and demand satisfied by a modern method improved to 62.3%. Injectables (63.5%) and implants (25.2%) still dominated the married method mix, the wealth gap narrowed but persisted (56.6% of demand satisfied in the poorest quintile versus 76.4% in the wealthiest), and although 99.4% of facilities offered family planning, only 18.2% of health posts stocked five or more modern methods.