Contraceptive usage in Asian countries

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Contraceptive usage in Asian countries

By ANN News Desk

Asia News Network

 

 

China, South Korea and Thailand are few Asian countries where a high number of people are using contraceptives. In China, there is 83 per cent usage of contraceptives while in both South Korea and Thailand the figure is 78 per cent.

 

Vietnam (76 per cent), Sri Lanka (71 per cent) Bhutan (67 per cent), Singapore (66 per cent) and Bangladesh (64 per cent) also have a high contraceptive prevalene, vis-a-vis their total population sizes.

 

Indonesia and India, both are among the fastest growing economies of the region and have 62 and 59 per cent contraceptive users respectively. The maximum level of contraceptive used in Asia are found mainly in the eastern and south eastern regions, though other Asian regions also include some countries with high prevalence. Meanwhile, growth in the number of contraceptive users is projected to be specifically high for south Asia.

 

Laos, Nepal and Myanmar are the countries which have among the lowest number of contraceptive users in Asia. All three countries have just over 50 per cent contraception usage. Pakistan, though, has among the lowest number of contraception use in Asia, with just 38 per cent prevalence.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/aec/asean_plus/30310935

 

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[the donger]

When i was younger I was reckless and didn't use anything.  i noticed that girls here -never- ask for contraception. Like it is entirely up to the guy. 

[yellowboat]

PDA deserves credit making contraception a normal practice in Thailand.  Really should visit Cabbage and Condoms when back in Bangkok.

[DoctorG]

Phil at 54% did surprise me. Thought it would be a lot lower.

[helpisgood]

5 hours ago, DoctorG said:

Phil at 54% did surprise me. Thought it would be a lot lower.

 

Agree with you there!

 

Among other factors is that despite the Philippine govt. efforts to provide free contraception and related health services to its many impoverished, the Roman Catholic Church keeps trying to snuff such efforts out.  Time to set aside very outdated ideas and time to accept reality by helping the poor.  I thought that was a key part of the religion's original message.

 

There are other articles about this that I had read quite some time ago.  Here's one I've just found:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/world/asia/philippines-free-contraception-duterte.html?_r=0