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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.
In Africa, it is just 33 percent. At the opposite end of the spectrum is China, which only this year ended its infamous one-child policy, with 84 percent of women using contraception.
Closing clinics puts strain on those that remain. There was hope that when the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in 2023, the $20-a-month cost ...
According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, "Africa has the lowest rate of contraceptive use (33%) and the highest rate of unmet need for contraceptives (22%)." [ 105 ] In Mozambique, despite efforts in improving access to modern contraceptive methods, the general fertility rate is "still high at 5.3 and the unmet ...
Could birth control become harder to get? Possibly. Some Trump allies have created a blueprint for his second term called Project 2025 , which includes a host of proposals around birth control.