Pakistan

Pakistan

United Nations Development Programme

Empowered lives.Resilient nations.

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 5 has five indicators as contained in the following table. The first two indicators of Goal 5 relate to the reduction of the mortality ratio and increase in the proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel. In terms of these two indicators, Pakistan while attaining some success has a considerable distance to go to meet the MDG targets by 2015.

A third indicator relating antenatal care also shows low progress towards the 2015 target. From the available data it is clear that many of the specific targets for Goal 5 will not be met in the immediate future, and it will be challenging to meet the targets in 2015



Table 6: MDG Indicators for Goal 5

Target 6: a) : Reduce by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio;
b) Achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015

Indicators

Definitions

1990-91

2001-02

2008-09

MTDF Targets 2009-10

MDG Targets 2015

Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)

No. of mothers dying due to complications of pregnancy and delivery per 100,000 live births

533*

3501

n/a

300

140

Proportion of births attended by skilled birth attendants

Proportion of deliveries attended by skilled health personnel (MOs, midwives, LHVs)

182

40

41

60

>90

Contraceptive Relevance Rate

Proportion of eligible couples for family planning programmes using one of the contraceptive methods

121

28

784

51

55

Total Fertility Rate

Average number of children a woman delivered during her reproductive age

5.41

n/a

3.753

2.7

2.1

Proportion of women 15-49 years who had given birth during last 3 years and made at least one antenatal care Consultation

Proportion of women (15-49) who delivered during the last 3 years and received at least one antenatal care during pregnancy period from either public/private care providers

152

35

58

70

100

Notes and Sources:

  1. Estimates of Ministry of Health
  2. Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) 2001-2002, PSLMP 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 (Whole series)
  3. Based on Survey findings of PDHS 2006-07, estimates of National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS)
  4. Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07.
  5. Estimates of National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS)

* Pakistan Reproductive Health and Family Planning Survey 2000-01 has quoted MMR as 533 based on Sisterhood Method