Contraception

Contraceptive methods for 100 women who could conceive
  Year of survey  
  1968 (i) 1973 (i) 1978 (i) 1988 (i) 2000 (i) 2000 (ii) 2010 (ii) 2016 (ii) 2023 (ii)
Stérilisation (1) 9,7 9,1 8,5 7,1 5,4 1,3 3,2 4,3 5,5
Pill 4,8 18,7 35,7 45,4 56,9 56,4 49,5 36,4 26,8
IUD, patch, implant, injectable 1,3 3,3 10,1 23,0 19,9 21,6 24,8 30,9 32,5
Barrier or natural methods (a+b+c) 58,7 48,8 38,6 19,0 14,4 17,2 18,6 19,9 26,1
Condom (a) 10,9 8,8 6,6 4,3 9,3 - - - -
Withdrawal (b) 31,8 27,2 22,4 6,0 2,6 - - - -
Abstinence, Ogino method, diaphragm (c) 16,0 12,9 9,7 8,7 2,6 - - - -
Without contraception 25,4 20,1 7,1 5,5 3,4 3,5 4 8,4 9
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

(1) The respondent or her partner
Women who are neither sterile nor pregnant, who have sexual relations and are not trying to conceive.
(i): Women aged 18 to 44 residing in metropolitan France; (ii): Women aged 18 to 49 residing in France (excluding Mayotte).
Sources : Estimates based on the results of the World Fertility Survey (1978), the Birth Regulation Survey (1988), the work of Toulemon & Leridon (1991), and the CoCon (2000), Fecond (2010), Baromètre Santé (2016) and Contextes des sexualités en France (2023) surveys.

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Update: April 2025