Trends in specific contraceptive methods

Measuring improvements in meeting the demand for family planning requires not only assessment of overall levels and trends in contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning but also an assessment of the effectiveness and range of contraceptive methods used. This section presents estimates of method-specific prevalence among married or in-union women and their partners in 2015 and notes shifts in the mix of methods used since 1994, when the ICPD Programme of Action was adopted and Governments committed to ensuring that women and men have access to the widest possible range of safe and effective family planning methods. Data since 2000 on the distribution of contraceptive methods used are available for 163 countries or areas. The most recent survey data from this time period are used to generate estimates of method-specific prevalence in 2015 (see annex I for methodological details).

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