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The report also informed that in Central and West Africa women who use birth control as much as doubled, and in Eastern and Southern Africa, the increase was up to 70%. [ 92 ] Gyimah reports that fertility rates are declining in some African countries, particularly Kenya , Botswana , Zimbabwe , and Ghana . [ 13 ]
Contraceptive use among women in Sub-Saharan Africa has risen from about 5% in 1991 to about 30% in 2006. [7] However, due to extreme poverty, lack of access to birth control, and restrictive abortion laws, many women still resort to clandestine abortion providers for unintended pregnancy, resulting in about 3% obtaining unsafe abortions each year.
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 4.6 2: Sub-Saharan Africa: 4.5 3: Arab world: 3.1 4: Middle East and North Africa (excluding high income) 2.6 5: Middle East and North Africa: 2.6 6: South Asia: 2.2 9: Europe and Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.9 7: Latin America and the Caribbean: 1.8 8: Latin America and the Caribbean ...
Maternal mortality rate as of 2010. [132] Birth control use and total fertility rate by region. Contraceptive use in developing countries is estimated to have decreased the number of maternal deaths by 40% (about 270,000 deaths prevented in 2008) and could prevent 70% of deaths if the full demand for birth control were met.
The teen birth rate for African Americans in 2009 was 60 births per 1000 women and 20 for non Hispanic teens (white). [72] According to the United States census, State Health Serve and the CDC, Hispanics accounted for 23% of the birth in 2014 out of the 1,000,000 births in the United States.
Last year, South Korea beat its own record for having the world’s lowest birth rate, reporting 0.72 births per woman for 2023, down from 0.78 in 2022. Singapore reported 0.97 births per woman ...
Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births. [1]From Our World in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period.
At least 40% don’t know that IUDs are legal, and one-quarter either don’t believe or don’t know that birth control pills are legal in the state, a 2023 survey by the Missouri Foundation for ...