Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Family planning in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation?

John G Cleland, Robert P Ndugwa & Eliya M Zulu

Volume 89, Number 2, February 2011, 137-143

Table 1. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa with at least two Demographic and Health Surveys and survey years

Country Year
Earliest Intervening Latest
Western Africa
Benin 1996 2001
Burkina Faso 1993 1999 2003
Côte d'Ivoire 1994 1998
Cameroona 1991 1998 2004
Ghana 1988 1993, 1998 2003
Guinea 1999 2005
Liberia 1986 2007
Mali 1987 1996, 2001 2006
Nigeria 1990 1999 2003
Niger 1992 1998 2006
Senegal 1986 1993, 1997 2005
Chad 1997 2004
Togo 1988 1998
Eastern Africa
Ethiopia 1992 1997
Kenya 1989 1993, 1998 2003
Madagascar 1992 1997 2004
Malawi 1992 2000 2004
Mozambique 1997 2003
Namibiab 1992 2000 2007
Rwanda 1992 2000 2005
United Republic of Tanzania 1991 1999 2004
Uganda 1988 1995, 2001 2006
Zambia 1992 2002 2007
Zimbabwe 1988 1994, 1999 2005

a The United Nations places Cameroon in central Africa.

b Namibia is located in southern Africa.