Current use of contraception (any method) (% of married women): Q5 (highest) by country
Current use of contraception: Percentage of currently married women who are using or whose partners are using any method of contraception and modern method of contraception. Modern method includes female sterilization, male sterilization, pill, IUD, injections, implants, male condom, female condom, diaphragm, foam,...
What the numbers show
Current use of contraception (any method) (% of married women): Q5 (highest) is currently reported for 45 countries. The highest value is 82.6% in Colombia; the lowest is 13.9% in Chad.
The median across all reporting countries is 48.1%, and the mean is 47.2%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.
Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Chad (up 63.5%), and the largest decrease in Nepal (down 34.0%).
Current use of contraception (any method) (% of married women): Q5: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia | 82.6% | 2015 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 78.1% | 2014 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 3 | Türkiye | 76.5% | 2013 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 4 | Peru | 74.6% | 2012 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 5 | Zimbabwe | 73.4% | 2015 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 6 | Dominican Republic | 72.0% | 2014 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 7 | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 70.8% | 2008 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 8 | India | 69.4% | 2021 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 9 | Lesotho | 65.3% | 2018 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 10 | Kenya | 63.9% | 2014 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 11 | Malawi | 62.4% | 2016 | up 36.2% | rising |
| 12 | Indonesia | 62.0% | 2017 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 13 | Egypt | 61.4% | 2014 | down 9.7% | flat |
| 14 | Bangladesh | 59.2% | 2019 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 15 | Rwanda | 58.6% | 2020 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 16 | Kazakhstan | 56.2% | 2015 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 17 | Madagascar | 55.4% | 2021 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 18 | Zambia | 53.8% | 2018 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 19 | Ethiopia | 53.0% | 2019 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 20 | Jordan | 50.1% | 2018 | down 18.1% | flat |
| 21 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 49.2% | 2016 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 22 | Uganda | 48.8% | 2016 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 23 | Philippines | 48.1% | 2017 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 24 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 47.8% | 2018 | up 23.8% | flat |
| 25 | Kyrgyzstan | 46.6% | 2018 | down 8.1% | falling |
| 26 | Mongolia | 45.9% | 2018 | down 11.4% | falling |
| 27 | Mozambique | 45.3% | 2015 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 28 | Nepal | 44.3% | 2019 | down 34.0% | falling |
| 29 | Burkina Faso | 37.3% | 2010 | up 51.0% | rising |
| 30 | Senegal | 33.6% | 2019 | up 37.1% | rising |
| 31 | Nigeria | 33.0% | 2018 | down 5.7% | rising |
| 31 | Haiti | 33.0% | 2017 | down 12.2% | flat |
| 33 | Central African Republic | 32.6% | 2019 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 34 | Cameroon | 31.1% | 2018 | down 29.2% | flat |
| 35 | Sierra Leone | 26.1% | 2019 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 36 | Guinea-Bissau | 25.9% | 2019 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 37 | Mauritania | 25.5% | 2021 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 38 | Togo | 24.6% | 2014 | up 27.5% | falling |
| 39 | Mali | 24.3% | 2018 | up 27.2% | rising |
| 40 | Ghana | 23.8% | 2018 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 41 | Benin | 23.3% | 2018 | down 30.7% | falling |
| 42 | Côte d'Ivoire | 22.3% | 2016 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 43 | Gambia | 18.8% | 2020 | down 14.9% | rising |
| 44 | Guinea | 18.0% | 2018 | up 5.3% | falling |
| 45 | Chad | 13.9% | 2019 | up 63.5% | rising |
About this data
Current use of contraception: Percentage of currently married women who are using or whose partners are using any method of contraception and modern method of contraception. Modern method includes female sterilization, male sterilization, pill, IUD, injections, implants, male condom, female condom, diaphragm, foam, and jelly. Traditional method includes periodic abstinence, withdrawal, long term abstinence, folk method, and others.