Condombazaar publishes two categories of numbers on the Condometer. We keep them clearly separate so nothing is overstated.
Condoms delivered, customers served, orders shipped, and PIN codes reached are pulled directly from our order database. These are actual counts, not estimates, and are refreshed quarterly.
This is our own estimate, not a clinical or third-party statistic. Published research on condom-purchase behavior — including studies on purchase embarrassment and avoidance, and India-specific reporting on in-person pharmacy experiences — documents that shoppers routinely delay, travel further than necessary, or avoid asking pharmacists directly for condoms. We have not found a single authoritative figure for exactly how much time this costs, so we use a deliberately conservative, published assumption for the average discreet in-person shopping and decision time, and multiply it by orders shipped.
We do not claim this reflects any individual customer's experience, and we revise the underlying assumption whenever better data becomes available.
These figures are not a claim that any specific pregnancy, cost, or medical visit was actually avoided by any customer. They are a public-health-style model applied to our verified sales volume, published in full below so the numbers can be checked, not just cited.
Formula: Condoms sold × assumed utilization rate × condom effectiveness rate.
Assumptions used: 80% of condoms sold are assumed actually used for intercourse (a conservative discount
for gifting, breakage, non-use, and other purposes); condom effectiveness is modeled at the commonly
cited ~98% with perfect use, discounted further for real-world inconsistent use. We apply this to a
conservative band rather than a point estimate, and publish the result only as a range, never as a
single number.
Formula: pregnancies-avoided range × average reported cost of childbirth and/or childrearing in India.
We use publicly reported ranges for hospital delivery costs (roughly ₹30,000–₹1,50,000 depending on
city and hospital type) and, separately, commonly cited estimates for raising a child to adulthood in
urban India (roughly ₹15–50 lakh). We show these as two distinct, clearly labeled ranges rather than
combining them into one large aggregate figure, since a single compounded crore-scale number is easy
to misread and hard to verify.
Formula: pregnancies-avoided range × an assumed termination-rate fraction (we use 20% as a conservative share) × publicly reported cost range for medical termination in India (roughly ₹5,000–₹50,000).
Formula: pregnancies-avoided range × an assumed ~20 hours per case for associated doctor visits, counselling, pharmacy visits, and travel that an unintended pregnancy can involve.
Every step above compounds an assumption on top of an assumption. A single headline figure at the end of that chain would imply more precision than the model supports. We show bands, we show every input, and we revise the assumptions whenever better public data is available. If you're a journalist, researcher, or fact-checker and want the underlying spreadsheet, contact our support team and we'll share it.
We don't publish a single all-up rupee figure combining pregnancy, medical, and childrearing costs into one number — each is shown separately so no figure is inflated by stacking. Where we reference the broader public health picture, we link to independent sources such as NFHS-5 rather than attributing national figures to our own sales.
Last updated: . Questions about this methodology can be sent to our support team.