**6. Unmet need for family planning due to poor postpartum period education**

The unmet need for family planning as a crucial factor in determining equity among women at the postnatal time is almost liked mutual with the use of contraceptives. Mothers, since the first days after delivery, should be equipped with proper information on the use of contraceptives to avoid the condition unmet for family planning and arrange their next pregnancy with adequate time [29]. At least one in ten married or in-union women in most regions of the world have an unmet need for family planning. Worldwide, in 2015, 12% of married or in-union women are estimated to have had an unmet need for family planning; that is, they wanted to stop or delay childbearing but were not using any method of contraception. Estimates of the percentage of women aged 15–49 years who use contraception or who have an unmet need for family planning, by region, for the year 2020 showed that only 35.9% of women in Northern Africa and West Asia compared to 60% in Europe and Northern America [29]. The level was much higher, 22%, in the least developed countries. Many of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, which is also the region where the unmet need was highest (24%), double the world average in 2015 [24]. Unmet need is generally higher among younger women in the poorest households and among those who have less education and live in rural areas. Despite efforts and availability of contraceptives in low- and middleincome countries, uptake continues to be low because of several barriers [32, 33].
