This report presents the vital registration and maternal and child health statistics gathered from
Matlab, Bangladesh, in 2015. The data were collected by the Health and Demographic Surveillance
System of icddr,b. The surveillance area is divided into an icddr,b service area and a Government
service area which receives usual government health and family planning services. The icddr,b service
area is sub-divided into four blocks, where family planning, immunization and limited curative services
are provided to under-five children and women of reproductive age.
In the surveillance area as a whole, fertility slightly increased in 2015 compared to 2014. The crude
birth rate (CBR) was 22.0 per 1,000 populations in 2015 whereas in 2014 the rate was 21.6. The total
fertility rate (TFR) was 2.7 per woman in 2015 and 2.6 in 2014. In the icddr,b service area, CBR was 22.3
and in the Government service area, CBR was 21.6 and TFR was 2.7 in both the services area.