Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 1.00, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, language: English, abstract: Bangladesh is the one of the most populous country in the world being able to make the world, the demographers and population scientists to look at this country with marvel eyes to see the staggering improvement in fertility declining. Without substantial improvement in socio-economic and health the extent and rapid declining fertility started from mid seventieth to mid nineteenth, and then remained constant over a decade. Bangladesh is now walking to attaining replacement level of fertility as the fertility declining again started from the mid twentieth and has been carrying the declining in fertility through all over the last decade. Along with achieving the long and glorious history of fertility declining Bangladesh also experienced an intensive increase in contraceptive use over these periods. This paper has been made an attempt to explore the rural urban differentiate of fertility and contraceptive use in Bangladesh adopting parity progression ratio and logistic regression model using the nationwide Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data. The findings indicate that urban area has an improvement in fertility and contraceptive use than their rural counterparts. Age of the respondent, level of education, region, and current work status are significant predictors of current use of contraception in urban area. In rural area the significant predictors are age of the respondent, level of education, region, current work status, exposure to mass media and religion.