Social medicine, feminism and the politics of population: From transnational knowledge networks to national social movements in Brazil and Mexico

Figures & data

Table 1. Percentage of married or in-union women of reproductive age* using any contraceptive method; and those using selected methods as a percentage of all married or in-union women of reproductive age using contraceptives.

	Brazil			Mexico
	1986	1996	2006–7	1976–77	1987	1995	2009
Any method	66.2	76.7	80.3	30.3	52.7	66.5	72.5
Female sterilisation	40.5	52.3	36.2	8.9	35.3	41.1	50.1
IUD	1.5	1.4	2.4	18.8	19.4	22.0	–
Pill	38.1	27.0	30.8	35.6	18.4	12.6	–

Source: Calculated from, United Nations Population Division, http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/dataset/contraception/wcu2015.shtml.

*The 1986 Brazil survey includes women ages 15–44; the others include women ages 15–49.