Contraception is woman's business, say 45% Karnataka men

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Second-most populous country India’s fertility rate in 1950 was 5.9 births per person. Today, the total fertility rate has declined to 2.2 births per women.

Last year, around 14.7 crore Indian women were using modern methods of contraception. 37.9 per cent of these women underwent female sterilisation. Meanwhile, less than one in 10 men use condoms in India.

In Karnataka, 45% of men aged 15-19 believe that “contraception is a woman’s business and a man should not have to worry about it”. While the male sterilisation rate has been declining over the years, over half of all women in Karnataka report using sterilisation as a contraceptive method.

Let’s take a look at the stats: