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As of 2012, 57% of women of child bearing age wanted to avoid pregnancy (867 of 1520 million). [5] About 222 million women however were not able to access birth control, 53 million of whom were in sub-Saharan Africa and 97 million of whom were in Asia. [5] Many countries limit access to birth control due to religious and political reasons. [6]
From data collected in the 2017-2019 National Survey for Family Growth, the statistics of birth control usage with respect to these factors with women ages 15–49 were studied. Higher use of the pill within populations as a contraceptive method was found to be correlated with a younger age range, more higher education attainment, and higher ...
Studies in 2008 and 2013 indicated that Asians (23 per 1,000) and whites (43 per 1,000) have lower rates of pregnancy before the age of 20. [15] [18] Teen birth rates decline by racial groups [8] Teen birth rates declined from 2018 to 2019 for several racial groups and for Hispanics.Among 15- to 19-year-olds, teen birth rates decreased:
A woman takes the next pill from a monthly pack of birth control in Berlin on May 25, 2021. ... A 2022 KFF survey found that about a third of reproductive-age women not currently using ...
An estimated 19 million women of reproductive age are now living in so-called contraceptive deserts, ... All Food and Drug Administration-approved birth control is currently legal in the U.S., ...
In the coming decades, those numbers are expected to shoot up. By 2030, the UN predicts that the number of partnered women using contraception will rise by 20 million to nearly 800 million.
They ask for data for the two most recent years, and they estimate abortion statistics for the missing year by interpolation. [1] For 2020, the Guttmacher Institute reported 930,160 abortions, an abortion rate of 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 20.6 abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth. [6]
Almost 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45, with 20% of 30 year olds having had one. [24] In 2019, 60% of women who had abortions were already mothers, and 50% already had two or more children. [25] [26] Increased access to birth control has been statistically linked to reductions in the abortion rate. [27] [28] [29]