Table 4.
First-year contraceptive discontinuation rates due to method failure, desire for pregnancy, health reasons, or other reasons: 20 DHS countries in SSA and survey rounds
| Country | Survey | 12-month discontinuation rates
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| Method failure | To become pregnant | Side effects, health reasons | All other reasons | |||
| Benin | 2011 | 3.0 | 7.8 | 6.2 | 21.6 | 38.6 |
| Burkina Faso | 2010 | 1.5 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 20.0 |
| Liberia | 2013 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 13.1 | 7.0 | 25.0 |
| Mali | 2012 | 4.7 | 13.7 | 10.3 | 15.6 | 44.3 |
| Niger | 2012 | 0.6 | 18.0 | 4.4 | 22.5 | 45.4 |
| Nigeria | 2013 | 3.9 | 8.6 | 2.3 | 7.5 | 22.3 |
| Senegal | 2010 | 3.5 | 7.8 | 15.3 | 22.4 | 49.1 |
| Sierra Leone | 2013 | 1.8 | 4.1 | 11.0 | 5.9 | 22.8 |
| Burundi | 2010 | 5.5 | 9.0 | 10.7 | 15.5 | 40.8 |
| Comoros | 2012 | 2.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 7.0 | 18.4 |
| Ethiopia | 2005 | 1.4 | 10.4 | 14.5 | 15.7 | 42.0 |
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| Kenya | 1998 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 8.5 | 14.5 | 32.6 |
| 2003 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 12.8 | 14.4 | 37.6 | |
| 2014 | 3.0 | 4.7 | 10.5 | 24.1 | 30.5 | |
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| Malawi | 2004 | 3.4 | 8.4 | 10.5 | 13.5 | 35.8 |
| Mozambique | 2011 | 2.3 | 11.0 | 11.7 | 20.7 | 45.7 |
| Rwanda | 2010 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 11.0 | 9.5 | 26.3 |
| Tanzania | 2004 | 3.9 | 8.4 | 11.6 | 13.9 | 37.8 |
| Uganda | 2011 | 6.3 | 7.4 | 16.1 | 13.1 | 43.0 |
| Zambia | 2013 | 3.1 | 5.6 | 7.6 | 10.5 | 26.8 |
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| Zimbabwe | 1994 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 19.5 |
| 1999 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 9.6 | 20.2 | |
| 2005 | 2.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 9.7 | 20.2 | |
| 2010 | 2.4 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 10.0 | 23.9 | |
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| Namibia | 2013 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 6.0 | 9.2 | 19.1 |
Among women 15–49 years who started an episode of contraceptive use within five years preceding the survey, percent of episodes discontinued within 12 months, by main reason (method failure, desire for pregnancy, health reasons, or other)
Other reasons include want more effective method, lack of access, costs too much, inconvenient to use, infrequent sex/husband away, difficult to get pregnant/menopausal, marital dissolution/separation,.