Table

  Region, Country, and Year % of Women Intending
To Use Family Planning
Who Know What
Method They Want

Table 1

Women
Know What
Method
They Want

Percentage of
Married Women
Not Currently Using
Contraception but
Intending to in the
Next 12 Months
Who Know What
Method They
Want, 1990–1999

DHS questions include:
"Do you intend to use a
method within the next
12 months?" and "When you
use a method, which method
would you prefer to use?"

Source: Demographic
and Health Surveys

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Benin 1996 86
Burkina Faso 1999 95
Cameroon 1998 84
Central African Rep. 1994 88
Chad 1997 90
Comoros 1996 96
Côte d'Ivoire 1994 93
Ghana 1998 87
Guinea 1999 99
Kenya 1998 88
Madagascar 1997 85
Malawi 1992 96
Mali 1996 86
Mozambique 1997 89
Namibia 1992 95
Niger 1998 91
Nigeria 1990 84
Rwanda 1992 98
Senegal 1997 80
Tanzania 1996 91
Togo 1998 84
Uganda 1995 82
Zambia 1996 89
Zimbabwe 1994 99
ASIA & PACIFIC
Bangladesh 1997 87
India 1999 93
Indonesia 1997 91
Nepal 1996 89
Pakistan 1991 82
Philippines 1998 96
Vietnam 1997 98
CENTRAL ASIA
Kazakhstan 1995 86
Kyrgyz Rep. 1997 98
Uzbekistan 1996 98
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Bolivia 1997 83
Brazil 1996 92
Colombia 1995 88
Dominican Rep. 1996 92
Guatemala 1999 91
Haiti 1994 96
Nicaragua 1997 95
Paraquay 1990 83
Peru 1996 82
NEAR EAST & NORTH AFRICA
Egypt 1995 89
Eritrea 1995 97
Jordan 1997 94
Morocco 1992 100  
Sudan 1990 94
Turkey 1998 85
Yemen 1997 87

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