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District to provide family planning awareness and advice at the grassroots
level.

At present the Population Growth Rate in Muzaffargarh stands at 2.6 against
the national rate of 2.4. Similarly, Total Fertility Rate for the District is 4.7
whereas the national rate, as recorded in 2017, is 3.56. The population
doubling time for the District is 35 years. On the other hand, Contraceptive
Prevalence Rate is merely 25%. All of these statistics bring to a conclusion
that a lot of wok still needs to be done in the District.

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