Recent data on levels of family planning in Ghana’s Demographic and Health Surveys present a high level of
unmet need although family planning programmes were introduced around the early 1960s. This review
examines unmet need for the past two decades among married women using the GDHS reports. We employed
Griffiths (2002) approach to examine GDHS reports published between 1993 to 2014 and complimented with
relevant published articles within this period using relevant search engines. We found that, nearly two in five
married women used a form of contraceptive and one in three married women still reported unmet need. Younger
and older mothers over the entire two decades consistently reported unmet need for spacing and limiting
respectively. Rural mothers as well as those from poorest households were more likely to report unmet need for
family planning while mothers who attained at least secondary education were less likely to report unmet need.