Which countries around the world is there a high prevalence of contraceptive use?  And which gender uses condoms more in the global community? Males or females? The World Health Organization (WHO) latest figures shows that China is leading the world in contraceptive prevalence.  Rather surprisingly in second place is the UK with rising birth rates in teen pregnancy.

Below I have created a map in Maker! that shows this data uploaded into Finder! from the World Heath Organization:

Click the map to view in Maker.

The WHO’s Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) is probably one of the most extensive and reliable health indicator databases out there.  There is data available on just about every health indicator and can be easily uploaded into Finder to make interesting visual analyitics like the  map above.

Click to view dataset in Finder!:

http://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/10770

 

One Response to Dataset of the Day: Global Contraceptive Prevalence and Condom Use

  1. [...] could be generated through Finder! to create an interesting map in Maker!. Two of my recent blogs, Global Contaceptive Use and Champagne Anyone, were both maped using data linked from Gaurdian’s Data Blog and Data [...]

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