Contraceptive Prevalence (Any Method)

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: contraceptive-prevalence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Contraceptive Prevalence (Any Method): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	196	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	196	0
Women aged 15–49 using any contraceptive method (%)contraceptive_prevalenceHeadline	The headline figure: Share of all women aged 15–49 using any contraceptive method (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	6.6South Sudan78.7Finlandmiddle 41.3	172	0
Lower bound (95% uncertainty interval)lowerwhiskerMeasure	Lower end of the 95% uncertainty interval the UN publishes around the estimate, in per cent.	Number · up to 1 decimal	3.4South Sudan63.7Finlandmiddle 29.6	172	0
Upper bound (95% uncertainty interval)upperwhiskerMeasure	Upper end of the 95% uncertainty interval the UN publishes around the estimate, in per cent.	Number · up to 1 decimal	12.3Chad89.2Norwaymiddle 55.7	173	0
Estimate method (UN DESA)observation_statusFlag	How the UN made the estimate: “Interpolation” when the year falls between two of the country’s surveys, “Projection” when it falls before the first survey or after the last.	Text	—	2	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 34 years.

The same 196 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 29 places this site covers

UN DESA Population Division gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCyprusFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandIcelandIsle of ManLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMicronesiaMonacoNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN DESA Population Division

   un.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2024: contraceptive prevalence, any method, all women aged 15–49, 2023

   Data_FamilyPlanningIndicators_2024.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   34 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as contraceptive-prevalence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/contraceptive-prevalence

From the UN Population Division's Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2024, a model fitted to the household surveys in its World Contraceptive Use database, read from the Division's own download. Each value keeps the Division's note on whether it falls between two surveys or beyond them. Years after 2023 are forecasts and are excluded.

• Charted

  Contraceptive Prevalence (Any Method) by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • People & Population

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