Table 5. Contraceptive Awareness

Awareness of Contraceptive Methods Among Married Men of Reproductive Age, 1990-2003
Region, Country & Year % Who Have Heard of
Any
Method		 Any
Modern
Method		 Any
Traditional
Methoda		 Female
Sterilization		 Male
Sterilization		 OCsb IUD Male
Condom		 Injectables Vaginal
Methodsc
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Benin 1996 96 94 83 58 33 75 33 84 72 29
Benin 2001 96 95 73 56 31 71 22 93 76 0
Burkina Faso 1993 92 80 87 49 19 54 37 73 54 22
Burkina Faso 1998-99 93 92 72 42 19 73 36 90 68 27
Cameroon 1991 74 65 62 47 10 44 26 50 34 17
Cameroon 1998 88 86 70 48 15 63 31 83 51 16
Cape Verde 1998 100 100 83 95 48 97 80 100 94 36
Central African Rep. 1994-95 96 92 81 67 50 42 12 89 26 12
Chad 1996-97 76 70 48 34 7 32 9 61 42 4
Comoros 1996 96 93 92 55 26 78 33 92 74 11
Côte d'Ivoire 1994 87 85 66 48 20 56 26 82 52 24
Côte d'Ivoire 1998-99 93 93 67 48 27 66 34 93 61 24
Eritrea 1995 82 78 66 30 7 73 26 68 62 9
Ethiopia 2000 92 90 53 39 13 85 12 67 70 0
Gabon 2000 98 97 87 57 28 79 32 96 48 0
Ghana 1993 94 93 77 70 32 80 44 87 74 62
Ghana 1998 96 96 79 72 39 81 51 94 82 53
Guinea 1999 80 78 47 35 10 60 12 75 54 8
Kenya 1993 99 97 89 88 56 94 71 93 88 33
Kenya 1998 99 99 91 88 69 96 76 98 92 38
Malawi 1992 97 95 74 66 28 72 44 90 59 46
Malawi 2000 100 100 82 93 73 93 60 98 93 0
Mali 1995-96 88 86 70 71 23 67 36 81 55 17
Mali 2001 89 88 54 48 33 75 21 85 70 0
Mozambique 1997 69 66 38 32 13 51 32 58 46 6
Niger 1992 85 74 37 56 24 57 37 51 57 19
Niger 1998 94 93 67 74 23 79 46 78 81 26
Rwanda 1992 98 97 94 80 58 91 62 94 92 30
Rwanda 2000 100 99 93 75 27 75 30 98 79 0
Senegal 1992-93 80 74 41 52 15 62 39 54 38 13
Senegal 1997 90 79 61 37 8 61 38 68 37 12
Tanzania 1991–92 86 84 57 60 28 76 35 71 39 37
Tanzania 1999 97 96 74 76 40 89 51 94 80 19
Togo 1998 98 96 91 62 28 70 52 94 84 34
Uganda 1995 98 95 83 71 28 85 23 90 65 18
Uganda 2000-01 99 99 85 72 51 91 38 98 86 0
Zambia 1996 99 99 84 75 32 89 34 98 54 26
Zambia 2001-02 100 100 88 74 33 93 29 99 75 24
Zimbabwe 1994 100 100 88 84 53 99 66 99 81 31
Zimbabwe 1999 100 100 62 60 46 98 52 98 85 0
NEAR EAST & NORTH AFRICA
Egypt 1992 97 97 75 64 25 96 95 69 66 30
Mauritania 2000-01 61 55 39 20 15 48 20 41 39 6
Morocco 1992 98 98 63 70 16 97 64 92 53 18
Turkey 1998 98 97 88 69 49 93 87 85 62 26
ASIA
Bangladesh 1996-97 100 100 78 99 90 100 68 97 93 0
Bangladesh 1999-2000 100 100 82 95 87 100 70 97 93 0
Nepal 2001 100 100 81 99 98 90 59 97 94 0
Pakistan 1990-91 79 78 49 66 32 55 29 59 50 13
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Belize 1999d 86 86 38 65 45 86 39 74 62 27
Bolivia 1998 89 85 82 59 37 72 73 78 48 36
Brazil 1996 100 100 82 93 77 99 54 99 63 35
Dominican Rep. 2002 100 100 85 94 53 97 78 99 89 56
El Salvador 2003 99 99 72 97 85 93 59 99 92 51
Guatemala 2002 95 95 55 84 74 87 48 85 83 40
Haiti 1994-95 100 99 92 83 49 93 37 96 90 18
Haiti 2000 100 100 82 69 48 96 20 97 96 0
Honduras 2001 100 99 70 94 57 93 79 99 87 43
Jamaica 1993 100 99 74 86 46 96 53 98 88 41
Nicaragua 1998 99 99 62 89 70 97 77 97 88 34
Peru 1996 98 97 92 85 73 87 86 93 81 66
EASTERN EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
Albania 2002 100 87 100 19 5 29 6 86 19 4
Kazakhstan 1999 100 100 88 47 22 80 96 98 28 21
Romania 1999 100 100 98 63 32 87 78 99 16 26
The sum of individual modern (or traditional) methods may not add to "Any Modern (or Traditional) Method" because men could name as many methods as they knew.
Responses were both spontaneous and probed.
a Traditional methods: periodic abstinence, withdrawal, and other (some surveys included any combination of traditional, folk, and lactational amenorihea method).
b Oral contraceptives.
c Vaginal methods: spermicides and diaphragms.
d Among all men.