Pregnancy avoidance developing countries worldwide by contraception use 2017

This statistic shows the number of women in developing countries worldwide who want to avoid pregnancy as of 2017, by contraceptive use. As of that year, around 671 million women who wanted to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptive methods, while 214 million women who wanted to avoid pregnancy did not use modern contraception.

Number of women in developing countries worldwide who want to avoid pregnancy as of 2017, by contraception use (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of women who want to avoid pregnancy in millions
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Release date

December 2017

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017

Age group

15-49 years

Supplementary notes

* Modern methods include female and male sterilization, hormonal methods, IUDs, male and female condoms, modern fertility awareness–based methods, lactational amenorrhea method, emergency contraception and other supply methods.
** Traditional methods include periodic abstinence, withdrawal, abstinence/long-term abstinence, breast-feeding/long-term breast-feeding and other nonsupply methods.
Use of traditional contraceptive methods and no methods represent an unmet need for modern contraceptives.

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