Table 18.

Estimated Economic Impact of Combined Oral Contraceptives (COCs) due to Increased Prevalence of Depression.

Women aged fifteen to thirty-nine	51,877,977
Percent with depression	10.1 percent
Women aged fifteen to thirty-nine with depression	5,239,675.68
Ever use of COCs	79.30 percent
Fifteen to thirty-nine years old COC users with depression	4,155,063
Relative risk (95 percent confidence interval) of depression with COC use	1.1 (1.08–1.14)
Adjusted estimate	3,777,330
Excess cases	377,733
Estimated individual annual costs	US$6,390
Estimated total annual costs	US$2,413,713,761