This paper is confined to two main objectives: to examine the unmet need for contraception of currently married women in reproductive ages who wanted no more children in...Ghana, Lesotho and Sudan; and to discuss the demographic and socio-economic differentials for women in the 'unmet need' category....The data used in this study come from the 1979/80 Ghana Fertility Survey (GFS), the 1977 Lesotho Fertility Survey (LFS) and the 1979/80 Sudan Fertility Survey (SUDFS), all of which were conducted as part of the World Fertility Survey (WFS) programme.