Top 15 Interesting Facts About Contraceptives

What is Contraceptives?

A contraceptive is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy.

Information about various contraceptive methods and their usage are widely available. Contraceptives can be obtained from any healthcare facility, pharmacy or hospitals. A clinician or gynecologist need to be consulted for invasive contraceptive procedures such as Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (IUD) and sterilization (1^✔ ✔Trusted Source
Family planning/contraception methods

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Proper family planning methods can help couples and women have the desired number of children. It can be done by spacing the pregnancy according to their conditions (2^✔ ✔Trusted Source
Contraception - choices

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Facts and Figures on Contraceptives

Statistics on Contraceptives

1. In the United States of America, non-permanent contraceptive methods, such as contraceptive pills, Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (IUDs) and condoms are being used by 67% of women. Whereas 25% of them rely on female and 8% percentage rely on male sterilization (3^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Modern Family Planning Utilization and Its Associated Factors among Currently Married Women in Rural Eastern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Study
   
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2. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey, in the UK around 75% of women aged 16-49 years and men aged 16-69 years used contraception. The most popular of them was the contraceptive pill and the male condom, which accounted for 25% of the total contraceptive use (4^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Contraception - Types, Benefits, and Side-effects
   
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3. According to the Office for National Statistics survey, married or co-habiting women used 84% more likely to use contraceptives, compared to women who were single, divorced or widowed (5^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: Key Findings from the 2020 KFF Women's Health Survey
   
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4. The use of injectable contraceptive drugs containing medroxyprogesterone acetate has been increased from 4.5% to 23% (6^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Strategies to improve adherence and continuation of shorter-term hormonal methods of contraception
   
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5. In 2012, Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive methods (LARC) such as IUDs and implants were relied upon by 42% percent of women (7^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   New Study Finds Women's Health Providers Use IUDs More Than Any Other Method of Birth Control
   
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6. Around 5.7 million women have come to depend on the male condom. Use of this particular contraceptive has increased from 52% to 93% (8^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Contraceptive Methods Women Have Ever Used: United States, 1982-2010
   
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7. Combination of two contraceptives can offer dual protection against both pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). These methods are often combined with another method such as condom with the oral contraceptive pill. Around 8% of women use this method.
8. Withdrawal which is a natural contraceptive method has seen an increase from 25% to 60% (9^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Coitus Interruptus (Withdrawal)
   
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9. Vasectomy method has seen an increase in use from 7% to 16% percent of men within the age group of 36-45 (10^✔ ✔Trusted Source
   Racial differences in vasectomy utilization in the United States: Data from the National Survey of Family Growth
   
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10. Contraceptive methods such as IUDs and implants are considered to be the most effective. They have a failure rate of less than 1% (11^✔ ✔Trusted Source
    Contraceptive method use, discontinuation and failure rates among women aged 15-49 years: evidence from selected low income settings in Kumasi, Ghana
    
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11. In India, it is estimated that if the current unmet need for family planning is completed in the next five years, 35,000 maternal deaths and 1.2 million infant death could be prevented (12^✔ ✔Trusted Source
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Initiative of Family Planning and Contraceptives

12. In India, ASHA, a governmental initiative has launched a scheme to deliver contraceptive to the doorstep. This scheme was launched in 233 pilot districts of 17 states for the first time on 11th July 2011. Later it was expanded to cover the entire country from 17th December 2012 (12^✔ ✔Trusted Source
    Family Planning
    
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13. In 1952, India was considered to be the first country to successfully launch a national programme for family planning (12^✔ ✔Trusted Source
    Family Planning
    
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14. The oral contraceptive pill and female sterilization method are some of the most commonly used methods of contraception since 1982 (13^✔ ✔Trusted Source
    The Pill, Sterilization, and Condoms Top List of U.S. Birth Control Choices
    
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15. The pill method is most commonly used by women in their teens, 20’s, never- married or college graduates (14^✔ ✔Trusted Source
    The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation: Oral Contraception's Effects on Fertility, Abortion, and Maternal & Child Characteristics
    
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