In 1989, 31.4% of married women aged 15–49 in Bangladesh used a contraceptive method. By 2011 that had doubled to 61.2%. The most recent survey-based estimate, for 2022, is 64%.
61.2% → 64%
Contraceptive prevalence, any method, married women aged 15–49, 2011 to 2022.
The climb was fast for two decades, then flattened: estimates for 2013 to 2019 sit between 61.8% and 62.8%, so the gain over the last decade is under three percentage points. Because the figures come from household surveys (Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys) carried out in different years, small year-to-year differences, such as the dip from 54.3% in 2000 to 50.2% in 2001, partly reflect survey differences and should not be over-read.
For policy, the data show that the earlier gains were won and that further progress needs a different approach than what delivered the first doubling. The series cannot say why prevalence has levelled off; that would require method-level and unmet-need data, which this indicator does not include.
Source: Household surveys compiled by the UN Population Division, via World Bank WDI (SP.DYN.CONU.ZS).