Table 5. Unintended births, pregnancies, and pregnancy rate, by zone and nationally, Tanzania 2013.
Total Fertility Rate a | Wanted Total Fertility Rate a | % women 15–49 sexually active in last 4 weeks a | % women 15–49 who have never had sexual intercourse a | % sexually active women using any contraceptive method a | % sexually active women using modern methods a | % women with unmet need for contra-ception a | Total preg-nancies b | Total unintended preg-nancies c | Pregnancy rate (per 1,000 women) | Unintended pregnancy rate (per 1,000 women) | |
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Zone | |||||||||||
Central | 6.5 | 5.7 | 58.2 | 13.0 | 35.4 | 33.6 | 26.7 | 217,645 | 81,532 | 275.8 | 103.3 |
Eastern | 3.9 | 3.6 | 55.3 | 11.3 | 51.4 | 41.6 | 13.0 | 421,092 | 160,257 | 184.0 | 70.0 |
Lake | 6.3 | 5.1 | 62.9 | 12.3 | 18.5 | 16.8 | 25.1 | 712,069 | 295,033 | 298.9 | 123.8 |
Northern | 4.6 | 3.8 | 54.7 | 18.0 | 54.0 | 44.4 | 16.1 | 338,511 | 116,342 | 201.1 | 69.1 |
Southern | 4.4 | 4.0 | 61.1 | 7.7 | 51.8 | 39.5 | 17.1 | 172,384 | 62,400 | 196.6 | 71.2 |
Southern Highlands | 5.4 | 4.7 | 56.3 | 14.7 | 48.8 | 36.5 | 15.1 | 381,564 | 116,303 | 259.4 | 79.1 |
Western | 7.1 | 6.3 | 57.5 | 13.5 | 24.4 | 19.3 | 18.9 | 435,603 | 133,992 | 317.9 | 97.8 |
Zanzibar | 5.1 | 4.8 | 48.5 | 33.8 | 19.7 | 14.5 | 20.7 | 66,771 | 21,408 | 191.6 | 61.4 |
Total (national) | 5.4 | 4.7 | 55.3 | 13.8 | 35.6 | 29.7 | 19.1 | 2,745,637 | 1,039,001 | 244.9 | 92.7 |
a Obtained from the 2010 Tanzanian DHS
b Sum of estimated number of abortions (from this study) and estimated number of births and miscarriages (from the DHS).
c Sum of estimated number of abortions (from this study) and estimated number of unintended births and miscarriages (from the DHS).