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Bangladesh is a predominantly Muslim country, with 92% of the population Muslim. Generally, Muslim clerics in Bangladesh have not pushed back against birth control, allowing for incredible progress in the past few decades. Starting in the 1970s, Bangladesh began experimenting with offering door-to-door delivery of contraceptives. The studies found that, when women were offered home delivery by health care workers, they were much more likely to use birth control pills. Due to the success of these experiments, Bangladesh began to offer these services throughout the country in the 1980s. Since that time, the average birth rate in Bangladesh has decreased from 6 children to about 2.2. births per woman.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/06/bangladesh-female-health-workers-family-planning How Bangladesh's female health workers boosted family planning]</ref> As reported by the Guttmacher Institute concerning women in Bangladesh, "The main reasons pill users gave for choosing their method (cited by 35-41%) were that it is easy to use, a field-worker had delivered it to their home and they had concerns about other methods' side effects."<ref>[https://www.guttmacher.org/about/journals/ipsrh/2003/03/bangladeshi-women-weigh-variety-factors-when-choosing-contraceptive Bangladeshi Women Weigh A Variety of Factors When Choosing a Contraceptive]</ref>