Pakistan remains one of the region's poorest performers against MDG targets. Progress toward education, gender, and … to maternal care by residence and wealth quintiles. Moreover fertility reduction has been slow at 3.3 in 2012 and … Delivery Standard for quality services; and improving maternal and child nutrition. Fertility reduction has been slow at 3.3 in …

goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty reduction. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important … determinants of reproductive health. While fertility and contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) are evenly distributed, wide gaps in … health; focusing interventions on high-fertility and high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) areas; addressing human resources …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender … fertility rate has declined to 2.3 in 2012. Contraceptive use has increased but high unmet need of 28.1 percent is of concern …

about 23 percent in 2007 to 12-13 percent in 2012. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important determinants of …

development goal (MDG) on poverty reduction; however, gender inequality still persists. Maternal mortality rate is 190 deaths per … 100,000 live births, representing a 65 percent decline from 1990. Fertility fell to 2.5, while contraceptive prevalence …

fertility and increased longevity has resulted in rapid population aging. By 2036, more than 22 percent of the population will …

. Disparities exist in access to maternal care by residence and wealth quintiles. The total fertility rate has declined to 2.4 in …

impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects … may be hampered by its population growth rate, depending on how quickly the fertility rates decline and at which point … a laissez faire projection scenario and 201.3 million under an accelerated fertility transition (AFT) scenario. This …