The number of women using hormonal contraceptives has increased in Western Europe over the last 10 years, while in the Czech Republic it is decreasing
The trend of hormonal contraceptive consumption in the Czech Republic in recent years is clear. While ten years ago 38% of women of working age between 15 and 49 used hormonal contraception, last year the figure was more than 7% lower. The trend is more or less the same in all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, but in Western Europe it is exactly the opposite. Women in the Netherlands are the most likely to use hormonal contraception, with 70.9% of women using it, roughly 8% more than 10 years ago. In Norway, 66.4% of women used hormonal contraceptives last year (up from 44% a decade earlier), followed by Belgian women at 62.7% (up from just under 62% a decade earlier). By comparison, 10.3% of women in Slovakia used hormonal contraceptives last year, up from just under 15% in 2012. The data comes from Richter Gedeon.
Source ceskenoviny.cz/pocet-zen-uzivajicich-hormonalni-antikoncepci-zapad