Contraceptive Transition in Asia
Publisher
Social Change
1994
English
p.118-126.
Abstract
With 58 percent of married couples in Asia and Oceania using a contraceptive method in 1990 (United Nations, 1994), contraception - a novelty two decades ago - has become the norm in much of the region. However, Asia, where over 60 percent of the world's 900 million couples of reproductive age live, shows a wide variety in patterns of contraceptive use and method mix. Contraceptive prevalence, for example, ranges from a low of 12 percent in Pakistan to over 80 percent in China and Hong Kong. In addition, the types of methods being used
also vary from country to country.