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Table 1 Weighted percent of US women aged 35 to 54 years who are at risk of pregnancy and sexually active, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–2012 [10]a

From: Contraceptive preferences and unmet need for contraception in midlife women: where are the data?

Age

Have had a hysterectomy

Postmenopausal

Not sexually active

At riskb

35–39

7.3%

0.0%

7.4%

85.4%

40–44

21.8%

0.2%

8.2%

69.8%

45–49

24.0%

7.7%

12.4%

55.9%

50–54

29.5%

35.8%

10.6%

24.1%

  1. aNational Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–2012 https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/ContinuousNhanes/Default.aspx?BeginYear=2011 [10]
  2. bAt-risk women include women who are sexually active, have not had a hysterectomy and are not postmenopausal