Contraception
| 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
External resources
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Méthode contraceptive principale de 1978 à 2010
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Fifty years of legal contraception in France. Population & societies 549, 2017
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The French pill scare: towards a new contraceptive model?. Population and societies, 511, 2014
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Premiers résultats CSF 2023, dossier de presse, pdf
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