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Table 1 List of countries with available data on contraceptive use prevalence and DFPS among sexually active female adolescents and their characteristics

From: Contraception in adolescence: the influence of parity and marital status on contraceptive use in 73 low-and middle-income countries

Region

Country

Year

Source

GDP

TFR

AFR

Early marriage

% sex active not married

West & Central Africa

Benin

2014

MICS

943

5.7

94

25.9

44.9

Burkina Faso

2010

DHS

575

6

130

51.6

14.3

Central African Republic

2010

MICS

446

6.2

229

67.9

10.0

Cameroon

2014

MICS

1571

4.9

119

31

37.8

Chad

2014

DHS

1025

6.4

179

66.9

7.5

Congo Brazzaville

2011

DHS

3196

5.1

147

35.6

49.7

Congo Democratic Republic

2013

DHS

458

6.6

138

37.3

31.4

Cote d’Ivoire

2011

DHS

1214

5

129

33.2

46.8

Gabon

2012

DHS

9774

4.1

114

21.9

57.7

Gambia

2013

DHS

483

5.6

88

30.4

1.9

Ghana

2014

DHS

1449

4.2

76

20.7

58.3

Guinea

2012

DHS

665

5.1

146

51.7

16.1

Guinea Bissau

2014

MICS

610

4.9

106

24.4

68.8

Liberia

2013

DHS

454

4.7

149

35.9

58.6

Mali

2015

MICS

749

6

151

49.7

11.8

Niger

2012

DHS

391

7.6

206

76.3

0.3

Nigeria

2016

MICS

2175

5.8

120

43.5

22.5

Sao Tome and Principe

2014

MICS

1824

4.4

92

35.4

37.8

Senegal

2016

DHS

952

4.9

80

31

2.3

Sierra Leone

2013

DHS

710

4.9

125

38.9

56.8

Togo

2013

DHS

579

4.8

84

21.8

45.3

Eastern & Southern Africa

Angola

2015

DHS

3683

6.2

163

30.3

43.9

Burundi

2016

DHS

285

5.5

58

19

12.3

Comoros

2012

DHS

788

4.3

70

31.6

5.2

Ethiopia

2016

DHS

712

4.6

80

41.2

3.3

Kenya

2014

DHS

1335

3.9

96

22.9

7.9

Lesotho

2014

DHS

1218

3.3

94

17.3

17.7

Madagascar

2008

DHS

470

4.8

148

48.1

15.4

Malawi

2015

DHS

362

4.4

136

42.1

16.5

Mozambique

2011

DHS

526

5.9

167

48.2

25.4

Namibia

2013

DHS

5490

3.6

82

6.9

62.8

Rwanda

2014

DHS

706

4.2

45

6.8

42.3

Swaziland

2014

MICS

3379

3.3

87

5.3

59.0

Tanzania

2015

DHS

872

5.2

132

30.5

19.1

Uganda

2016

DHS

580

5.4

132

34

18.0

Zambia

2013

DHS

1850

5.3

141

31.4

34.7

Zimbabwe

2015

DHS

1033

4

110

32.4

10.6

Europe & Central Asia

Albania

2008

DHS

4370

1.6

17

9.6

18.9

Azerbaijan

2006

DHS

5574

2

33

12.2

0.0

Kazakhstan

2015

MICS

10,510

3

36

7

14.4

Kyrgystan

2012

DHS

1177

3.6

44

7.8

0.6

Macedonia

2005

MICS

4793

2.1

12

3.6

24.7

Moldova

2012

MICS

2046

2.2

35

12.2

49.1

Serbia

2010

MICS

5411

1.7

24

5

62.7

Ukraine

2012

MICS

3855

1.5

34

9.1

47.5

Uzbekistan

2006

MICS

1082

2.4

25

7

2.0

South Asia

Bhutan

2010

MICS

2178

2.6

59

25.8

2.6

India

2015

DHS

1606

2.2

51

25.3

0.4

Nepal

2016

DHS

729

2.3

88

39.5

0.1

East Asia & Pacific

Cambodia

2014

DHS

1093

2.7

57

18.5

1.1

Indonesia

2012

DHS

3687

2.6

48

17

1.7

Lao

2011

MICS

1381

3.2

94

35.4

3.9

Mongolia

2013

MICS

4385

3.1

40

5.2

31.4

Myanmar

2015

DHS

1138

2.3

36

16

0.0

Philippines

2013

DHS

2760

3

57

15

9.9

Timor Leste

2016

DHS

1987

4.2

42

14.9

3.8

Vietnam

2010

MICS

1310

2

46

9.3

2.5

Latin America & Caribbean

Belize

2011

MICS

4517

2.6

64

25.9

26.3

Bolivia

2008

DHS

1736

3.5

88

21.7

20.1

Colombia

2015

DHS

6044

2

75

23.4

45.2

Costa Rica

2011

MICS

9186

2.2

54

21.2

38.9

Cuba

2014

MICS

7050

1.7

50

26

54.1

Dominican Republic

2014

MICS

7195

2.5

89

35.9

30.1

El Salvador

2014

MICS

3595

2.3

74

25.3

18.3

Guatemala

2014

DHS

3687

3.1

92

29.5

9.8

Guyana

2014

MICS

4030

2.6

74

30.2

9.0

Haiti

2012

DHS

766

3.5

66

17.5

39.8

Honduras

2011

DHS

2120

2.9

101

33.6

11.8

Mexico

2015

MICS

9290

2.2

83

25.5

18.6

Panama

2013

MICS

11,879

2.7

81

26.4

25.5

Peru

2012

DHS

6387

2.6

64

19.1

30.3

Suriname

2010

MICS

8303

2.5

66

18.8

53.9

Trinidad and Tobago

2006

MICS

21,188

1.6

36

8.1

55.5

  1. TFR total fertility rate; average number of children a woman would have by the end of her childbearing years (women age 15–49). AFR adolescent fertility rate; expressed per 1000 women aged 15–19. TFR and AFR are for the period 1–36 months preceding the survey. Early marriage: proportion of women aged 20–24 years whose first cohabitation was before 18 years. GDP per capita (current US$): World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files