Birth control options: Statistics
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An estimated 62 million U.S. women are in their childbearing years. Of those, 62% use some kind of contraception.
Among those who don’t, 31% are pregnant, trying to get pregnant, postpartum, sterile or not sexually active. The other 7% take their chances. Among those using contraceptives, here’s what they use:
The pill 28%
Sterilization 27.1%
Condom 16.1%
Vasectomy 9.9%
IUD 5.5%
Withdrawal 5.2%
Injectable Depo-Provera 3.2%
Vaginal ring 2.4
Rhythm 0.9
Other: 0.6
Statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Guttmacher Institute.
