Iran has passed a law banning the free, state-subsidized distribution of contraceptives in a bid to boost its population growth -- but the move has raised fears of catastrophic repercussions.
Condoms are freely available in Iranian pharmacies. The Islamic republic in the 1990s started actively promoting contraception as it encouraged families to have just two children to prevent the country's population growth increasing further.
According to Iran's Demographic Health Survey (DHS) carried out in October 2000 by the Iranian Family Planning (FP) program, 73.7% of currently married women were using contraception, but only 55.9% used modern methods.
Results: The overall contraceptive prevalence rate was 81.5% and the unmet need for any method of contraception was 2.6% (95% confidence interval, 2.0%-3.3%). Given the frequency of women who used traditional contraceptive methods (22.3%), the unmet need for modern methods was estimated as 17.4%.
The current fertility rate for Iran in 2023 is 2.091 births per woman, a 0.57% decline from 2022. The fertility rate for Iran in 2022 was 2.103 births per woman, a 0.57% decline from 2021.
Haiti is the country with the lowest prevalence of modern contraceptive use (31.3%), followed by Bolivia (34.6%), while Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and Paraguay have a prevalence of 70%.
Condom use was reported by 47% (325/698) of women. Previous studies have estimated that condoms are used in Australia by approximately 30% of couples for both contraception and the prevention of STI.
There is no age limit preventing you from buying contraception like condoms at a chemist, or from seeing a doctor about contraception without parental consent. Certain medical contraceptives, such as contraceptive pills, require a prescription that you can only get from a doctor.
In Ireland, free condoms are available to people of all ages through sexual health clinics and some third-level colleges.
In Iran, a man can marry permanently up to four women, with the consent of the previous wives.
The Quran does not prohibit birth control, nor does it forbid a husband or wife to space preg- nancies or limit their number. Thus, the great majority of Islamic jurists believe that family plan- ning is permissible in Islam.
In many Muslim-majority countries, birth control (and family planning in general) is readily accessible. Since early Islamic history, Muslim scholars approved of the use of birth control if the two spouses both agreed to it.
Some Muslim religious scholars allow use of condoms among conjugal couples and to minimize harm related to medical or health condition such as HIV/AIDS status (Esack and Chiddy, 2009).
Japan has the highest rate of condom usage in the world: in that country, condoms account for almost 80% of contraceptive use by married women. On average, in developed countries, condoms are the most popular method of birth control: 28% of married contraceptive users rely on condoms.
For example, condoms are legal, but until recently, they were rarely available anywhere other than certain hospitals or medical supply stores.
You DO NOT have to be 18 to buy condoms. You should not get carded for buying condoms and a clerk cannot legally refuse to sell them to you without looking at your ID. A checkout person also shouldn't ask your age—and if they do, you don't have to answer.
Anyone can buy condoms from a supermarket or pharmacy without being asked for ID to prove their age. The legal age for sexual consent in NSW is 16 years, regardless of the person's gender or the gender of their partner(s).
If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they're 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren't perfect, so in real life condoms are about 87% effective — that means about 13 out of 100 people who use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant each year.
Looking at the last column (Table 1), 59.9% of women and 47.3% of men aged 15–44 during 2011–2015 did not use a condom during any intercourse in the past 12 months. For women, this percentage was similar to those shown in 2002 and 2006–2010 (data not available for men).
According to a survey on the sex life in China released in 2019, a majority of the young Chinese adults used condoms during sex. In that survey, almost half of the respondents said they preferred extra thin condoms. The survey also revealed that Chinese men usually took the responsibility of condom purchase.
North America still has the highest contraceptive prevalence of any country, at 74.8%. South America follows closely at 74.6%.