111 Maternal mortality rate was reduced to 40 deaths for every 100.000 live births, whereas the percentage of pregnant women receiving health care during pregnancy by trained staff has reached (96.3%). The percentage of deliveries carried out under medical supervision was (99%). Early results of the national family health survey in 2008 pointed to widespread breastfeeding in the Jamhirya amounting to (94%), as well as higher percentage of married women from the age of 15 to 49 years using contraceptives that was put at (59.9%).