Kenya - Unmet need for contraception

Unmet need for contraception (% of married women ages 15-49)

The value for Unmet need for contraception (% of married women ages 15-49) in Kenya was 15.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.00 in 1989 and a minimum value of 13.80 in 2018.

Definition: Unmet need for contraception is the percentage of fertile, married women of reproductive age who do not want to become pregnant and are not using contraception.

Source: Household surveys, including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Largely compiled by United Nations Population Division.

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Year Value
1989 38.00
1993 35.30
1998 28.00
2003 27.40
2009 25.60
2014 17.50
2015 15.90
2016 15.60
2017 14.89
2018 13.80
2019 15.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health