TABLE 2.
Profiles of Women of Reproductive Age by Contraceptive Use, Unmet Need, and Intention to Use a Method: Unweighted Averages for 74 Countries, Latest Demographic and Health Surveys, Various Dates
| Pregnant | Open Interval (Months) |
Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–11 | 12–23 | 24–35 | 36–47 | 48–59 | 60+ | |||
| All women | 8.4 | 17.6 | 14.9 | 10.2 | 7.2 | 5.6 | 36.1 | 100.0 |
| Contraceptive use | ||||||||
| None | 15.8 | 20.5 | 12.1 | 7.2 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 35.1 | 100.0 |
| Traditional | 14.7 | 18.1 | 13.2 | 8.8 | 7.0 | 38.2 | 100.0 | |
| Modern, short-acting | 16.8 | 20.9 | 15.5 | 10.6 | 7.4 | 28.8 | 100.0 | |
| Modern, long-acting | 7.5 | 12.7 | 12.0 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 50.4 | 100.0 | |
| Unmet need | 14.5 | 23.0 | 19.9 | 11.6 | 7.4 | 5.4 | 18.2 | 100.0 |
| Spacing | 19.7 | 29.4 | 23.0 | 11.6 | 6.3 | 3.9 | 6.1 | 100.0 |
| Limiting | 9.2 | 15.5 | 15.9 | 12.5 | 9.8 | 8.1 | 29.0 | 100.0 |
| None | 9.3 | 19.7 | 15.9 | 11.5 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 28.9 | 100.0 |
| Infecund | 0.0 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 91.6 | 100.0 |
| Intention to use | ||||||||
| Using already | 13.9 | 18.6 | 14.2 | 9.9 | 7.3 | 36.1 | 100.0 | |
| Intends to use | 25.6 | 29.0 | 13.9 | 7.4 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 15.7 | 100.0 |
| Does not intend | 7.2 | 13.1 | 10.6 | 7.0 | 5.4 | 4.5 | 52.2 | 100.0 |