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Christopher Purdy, Executive Vice President of DKT International, comments:
I think the pictograph is misleading in an important way - that most of the unmet need is in the “poorest” countries. That is not exactly correct. True, 50 million women are in Africa. But a large percentage of unmet need is actually in middle income countries like China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, and Brasil. I mention this because I think the FP community is focusing on the poorest countries at the expense of a demographic time bomb in the (large) wealthier countries. The pictograph contributes to this fallacy.
I’ve talked about this (along with a more fundamental questioning of the numbers) in my Huff Post piece:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-purdy/family-planning-users_b_3185900.html#!
