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A report by BudgIT, a civic-tech organisation, says only 18 percent of married couples in Nigeria use modern contraceptives for childbirth spacing.
According to the report, among married people or those in unions, “just 18% use modern contraceptives for limiting or spacing births but the number rises to 32.5% among people who are not in a union”.The report said contraceptive use ranges from 9 percent in the north-east to 29.8 percent in the south-west among married couples.
“Within the south-west, the survey showed that Lagos and Osun met the SDG target of no more than 25 deaths per 1,000 live births,” the report reads.
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