international and nongovernmental organizations and governments should consider adopting more refined indicators of unmet need such as the proportion of demand satisfied which shows the share of total demand for contraceptives that is being fulfilled taken together contraceptive use and unmet need only define the total level of demand for family planning measuring demand satisfied serves as a proxy for whether a persons stated desires regarding contraception are being fulfilled and is a more sensitive measure of the extent to which individuals communities and health systems support people s right to use family planning