Table 1 Summary of household surveys by MDG region, with average birth risk distribution as a percent of births in the three most recent years of birth history, TFR in the three prior years and cross-sectional mCPR for 207 surveys conducted since 1990
Mother’s Age (%) | Birth Spacing (%) | Birth Order (%) | |||||||||||||
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N Surveys | Year (Average) | Births (thousands) | TFR Mean (range) | mCPR (%) | < 18 years | 18–34 years | ≥ 35 years | < 18 mo. | 18–23 mo. | 24–35 mo. | ≥ 36 mo. | First | 2nd to 4th | 5th or later | |
Caucasus and Central Asia | 10 | 2003 | 14 | 2.6 (1.7–3.8) | 34.2 | 1.7 | 91.0 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 10.5 | 15.1 | 66.1 | 38.1 | 47.2 | 14.7 |
Developed* | 3 | 2007 | 3 | 1.5 (1.2–1.7) | 34.0 | 2.7 | 91.0 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 8.1 | 83.9 | 46.5 | 46.6 | 6.9 |
Latin America and the Caribbean | 37 | 2001 | 179 | 3.3 (2.1–5.1) | 48.1 | 8.2 | 78.9 | 12.9 | 6.9 | 9.6 | 18.8 | 64.7 | 31.1 | 40.1 | 28.8 |
Northern Africa | 10 | 1999 | 48 | 3.1 (2.2–4.0) | 46.3 | 3.2 | 85.1 | 11.7 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 20.0 | 63.9 | 28.7 | 40.7 | 30.5 |
South-eastern Asia | 17 | 2002 | 110 | 3.2 (1.9–5.7) | 41.1 | 2.9 | 81.8 | 15.2 | 6.0 | 8.5 | 17.7 | 67.8 | 30.2 | 41.0 | 28.8 |
Southern Asia | 16 | 2002 | 156 | 3.4 (2.3–4.9) | 37.6 | 10.3 | 82.7 | 7.1 | 6.4 | 9.1 | 21.9 | 62.6 | 28.3 | 40.6 | 31.1 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | 107 | 2003 | 503 | 5.4 (2.5–7.6) | 17.0 | 7.0 | 78.4 | 14.6 | 4.8 | 8.7 | 28.2 | 58.3 | 21.9 | 33.8 | 44.3 |
Western Asia | 7 | 2001 | 36 | 4.6 (3.5–7.7) | 34.0 | 2.1 | 81.1 | 16.8 | 15.0 | 14.7 | 22.3 | 48.0 | 19.5 | 34.6 | 45.9 |
Overall | 207 | 2002 | 1049 | 4.4 (1.2–7.7) | 29.2 | 6.5 | 80.3 | 13.2 | 6.0 | 9.1 | 23.6 | 61.3 | 26.1 | 37.2 | 36.6 |