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Contraceptive use among currently married women aged 15–49 (%), any method

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Indicator full name: Contraceptive use among currently married women aged 15–49 (%), any method
Unit: %
Dimensions:
  • Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
  • Supranational group of countries (COUNTRY_GRP)
  • Sex (SEX)
  • Year of measure (YEAR)
Years data is available: 1959—2020
Last updated: 21 October 2025
Countries with no data (9): 
  • Andorra
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Israel
  • Luxembourg
  • Monaco
  • San Marino
(Sub)regional averages available for: 
  • WHO European Region
  • Members of the European Union
  • Members of the EU before May 2004 (EU15)
  • Members of the EU after May 2004 (EU13)
  • Members of the EU before Feb 2020
  • Nordic countries
  • Small countries
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HFA-DB
European Health for All database
Indicators: 618
Updated: 21 October 2025
The following abbreviations are used in the indicator titles:
•    SDR: age-standardized death rates (see HFA-DB user manual/Technical notes, page 13, for details)
•    FTE: full-time equivalent
•    PP: physical persons
•    PPP$: purchasing power parities expressed in US $, an internationally comparable scale reflecting the relative domestic purchasing powers of currencies.

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Contraceptive use among currently married women aged 15–49 (%), any method
Indicator code: E080140.T

Percentage of women of reproductive age (15-49) who are using (or whose partner is using) a contraceptive method at a particular point in time. Denominator is the number of women aged 15-49 who are in a marital or consensual union.

Contraceptive methods include female and male sterilisation, injectable and oral hormones, intrauterine devices, diaphragms, spermicides and condoms, natural family planning and lactational amenorrhoea where cited as a method.

Sources:

World contraceptive use 2010. United Nations, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (POP/DB/CP/Rev2010)

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