Progestin

Established Pharmacologic Class (EPC) Comparison, United States, 2024

Total Prescriptions in (2024)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2024)	Percent Share
Ethinyl Estradiol; Norethindrone	10,330,394	40.2%
Norethindrone	5,482,819	21.4%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Levonorgestrel	3,541,217	13.8%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Etonogestrel	3,372,586	13.1%
Medroxyprogesterone	1,744,511	6.8%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Norelgestromin	1,194,977	4.7%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2014-2024. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2026.08. Read more about the ClinCalc DrugStats database.

All ClinCalc DrugStats figures and graphs on this page are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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