41,000 Colombian women do not use menstrual health products: Dane

In Colombia there are around of 17.3 million girls and women between the ages of 10 and 55a range considered “of menstruating age.” This is 33.6% of the national population.

And although the main item used by women to attend their menstrual period are sanitary pads, used by 93.2% of them, according to Dane calculations between November 2021 and November 2022, 1.1% of women, equivalent to 41,000 people, used cloth or rags, old clothes, socks, toilet paper or napkins during their menstruation.

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In this same period of time another 17,000 women, 0.3% of the female population did not use any item.

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According to the statistical entity, on average, 9.6% of women have had to interrupt their work or study activities due to their menstrual period.

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Other figures highlighted by Dane have to do with pregnancies in girls and adolescents. Although official figures show that births to girls and adolescents have shown a sustained decline in recent years, In 2021, 4,895 births were registered in girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and 107,741 in adolescent women between the ages of 15 and 19.

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In addition, the predominant educational level for mothers is basic secondary, in which the 48.5% of girls between the ages of 10 and 14 who are mothers and 42.5% of adolescent mothers.

According to births, 41.6% of mothers between the ages of 10 and 14 are girls with basic primary education and in the case of adolescents, 37.5% of mothers who reach secondary education (10th and 11th grade) are.

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