Table 3. Met and Unmet Need and Total Demand for Spacing and Limiting Births, by Country.
| Country | Demand to limit (%) | Using to limit (%) | Unmet need to limit (%) | Demand to space (%) | Using to space (%) | Unmet need to space (%) |
| Benin | 14.8 | 5.4 | 9.4 | 26.0 | 11.8 | 14.2 |
| Cameroon | 10.6 | 6.4 | 4.2 | 29.9 | 19.6 | 10.3 |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | 9.3 | 5.8 | 3.5 | 27.7 | 14.3 | 13.4 |
| Ethiopia | 14.1 | 8.5 | 5.6 | 21.5 | 11.1 | 10.4 |
| Ghana | 14.9 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 27.4 | 12.2 | 15.2 |
| Kenya | 26.8 | 19.0 | 7.8 | 21.4 | 13.0 | 8.4 |
| Lesotho | 30.3 | 22.8 | 7.5 | 19.6 | 13.2 | 6.4 |
| Madagascar | 22.0 | 15.8 | 6.2 | 24.3 | 15.9 | 8.4 |
| Malawi | 28.0 | 19.8 | 8.2 | 25.8 | 15.6 | 10.2 |
| Namibia | 30.9 | 25.9 | 5.0 | 25.1 | 20.8 | 4.3 |
| Nigeria | 8.2 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 22.9 | 11.0 | 11.9 |
| Rwanda | 20.8 | 16.0 | 4.8 | 18.0 | 12.6 | 5.4 |
| Senegal | 8.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 21.4 | 6.6 | 14.8 |
| Swaziland | 35.0 | 26.4 | 8.6 | 16.0 | 11.5 | 4.5 |
| Tanzania | 17.5 | 10.8 | 6.7 | 29.6 | 18.0 | 11.6 |
| Uganda | 19.9 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 26.1 | 10.0 | 16.1 |
| Zambia | 17.6 | 11.4 | 6.2 | 30.3 | 18.5 | 11.8 |
| Zimbabwe | 22.3 | 18.6 | 3.7 | 27.6 | 22.7 | 4.9 |