Married Filipino women are almost twice as likely to use contraceptives than unmarried women, the Commission on Population and Development said in a statement issued on Wednesday. | JEMendozaINQ
“I’m putting on alert… on which population groups we need to prioritize in terms of fertility issues: women who are less educated, poorer women, as well as the sexually active and unmarried,” said Undersecretary for Population and Development Lisa Grace Bersales
Due to the increasing prevalence of contraceptive use, Popcom also reiterated that the country’s total fertility rate sharp decline: from 6.0 in 1973 to 1.9 in 2022. The latest figure is below the replacement fertility rate — or the fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels — of 2.1 children.
Bersales said, however, that Popcom would also like to determine how much the lower fertility rate was due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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