Cambodia - 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 Cambodia was 12.50 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.00 in 2000 and a minimum value of 12.50 in 2014.

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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Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health