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. 2015 Sep 21;6:125–142. doi: 10.2147/OAJC.S55041

Table 3.

Prevalence of female condom awareness and usea by country (listed by prevalence of awareness) from national survey data

Country Surveyb date Awarenessc
Ever use Current use
Women Men
Namibia 2013 94.2% 92.5% 0.5%
2006 83.0% 82.3% 6.4% 0.3%
Swaziland 2006 91.3% 84.1% 3.3% 0.1%
2010 0.4%
MICS
Lesotho 2009 86.6% 77.9% 0.2%
Malawi 2010 86.0% 84.9% 1.2% 0.1%
Zimbabwe 2010 83.9% 87.4% 0.3%
Rwanda 2010 82.4% 79.9%
Gabon 2012 81.7% 78.2% 0.1%
Haiti 2012 81.5% <0.1%
Ghana 2008 81.3% 86.3% 0.7% <0.1%
Guyana 2009 78.4% 69.9% 1.5% <0.1%
South Africa 2008 77.8%d 72.1% 7.2%d
NHPIBCS
2003 53.2% 56.4% 2.6% 0.2%
Dominican 2013 74.8%
Republic 2007 52.2% 0.6%
Tanzania 2010 72.5% 73.4% <0.1%
Uganda 2011 70.5% 81.4%
Cameroon 2011 70.4% 77.0% 0.1%
Sierra Leone 2013 69.5% 64.7% <0.1%
Liberia 2013 69.3% 56.1%
Burundi 2010 69.1% 66.4% <0.1%
Congo 2011 68.3% 85.0% <0.1%
Zambia 2007 65.8% 65.5% 1.2% <0.1%
Sao Tome and 2008 58.6% 61.1% 0.5%
Principe
Kenya 2008 57.6% 61.5% 0.6% <0.1%
Comoros 2012 54.8% 60.8% <0.1%
Ivory Coast 2012 54.4% 63.0% <0.1%
Paraguay 2004 54.0%
Burkina Faso 2010 47.8% 52.5% <0.1%
Mozambique 2011 45.3% 77.1% 0.1%
Peru 2011 44.7% 0.2%
Honduras 2011 44.6% 48.8% 0.4% <0.1%
Democratic 2013 43.2% 52.8% 0.1%
Republic of the Congo
Papua New Guinea 2006 40.1% 46.1% 0.6%
Senegal 2010 37.2% 44.0% <0.1%
El Salvador 2008 36.8% 0.3%
Mali 2012 35.7% 38.7% <0.1%
Benin 2012 34.9% 47.8% <0.1%
Nicaragua 2001 32.9% 0.3%
Ethiopia 2011 31.9% 39.1% <0.1%
Nigeria 2013 28.6% 32.8% <0.1%
2008 14.7% 25.9% 0.2% <0.1%
Guinea 2012 27.5% <0.1%
Guatemala 2002 25.0%
Cambodia 2010 23.5% <0.1%
Eritrea 2002 23.0% 0.1% <0.1%
Philippines 2013 20.0%
Kyrgyz Republic 2012 19.5% 21.5%
Jordan 2012 18.7%
Madagascar 2008 18.5% 21.2% 0.1% <0.1%
Kazakhstan 1999 17.9% 4.9% 0.1%
Albania 2008 15.2% 8.9% 0.3% <0.1%
Niger 2012 15.2% 17.8% <0.1%
Turkey 2003 13.5%e
13.4%f
Timor-Leste 2009 10.4% 10.4% <0.1%
India 2006 8.3% 16.8% <0.1% <0.1%
NFHS
Tajikistan 2012 7.2%
Chad 2004 7.1% 27.3% <0.1% <0.1%
Turkmenistan 2000 6.3% <0.1%
Mauritania 2000 5.3% 7.5% <0.1%

Notes:

a

Refers to all women 15–49 years of age, unless otherwise indicated;

b

refers to Demographic and Health Survey, unless otherwise indicated;

c

awareness of female condoms as a contraceptive method (percentage of all respondents, currently married respondents, and sexually active unmarried respondents ages 15–49 years who know of any contraceptive method, by specific method);

d

sexually active women over 15 years of age;

e

ever-married women;

f

currently married women.

Abbreviations: MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey; NHPIBCS, National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behavior and Communication Survey; NFHS, National Family Health Survey.