Intended and Unintended Pregnancies Worldwide in 2012 and Recent Trends
By G. Sedgh, Susheela Singh, R. Hussain. Studies in family planning, 2014
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Periodic estimation of the incidence of global unintended pregnancy can help demonstrate the need for and impact of family planning programs. We draw upon multiple sources of data to estimate pregnancy incidence by intention status and outcome at worldwide, regional, and subregional levels in 2012 and to assess recent trends using previously published estimates for 2008 and 1995. We find that 213 million pregnancies occurred in 2012, up slightly from 211 million in 2008. The global pregnancy rate decreased only slightly from 2008 to 2012, after declining substantially between 1995 and 2008. Eighty-five million pregnancies, representing 40 percent of all pregnancies, were unintended in 2012. Of these, 50 percent ended in abortion, 13 percent ended in miscarriage, and 38 percent resulted in an unplanned birth. The unintended pregnancy rate continued to decline in Africa and in the Latin America and Caribbean region. If the aims of the London Summit on Family Planning are carried out, the incidence of unwanted and mistimed pregnancies should decline in the coming years.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990-2019. (2020, positive): “Evidence suggests that rates of unintended pregnancy have declined world wide, 4,5 with increasing access to and use of contraception likely contributing to these trends.”
- Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect (2019, background): “Second, a sizable number of pregnancies in our sample are not even likely to be the result of planning, given that 50% of births and 62% of pregnancies in South American countries are not intentional (Sedgh et al., 2014).”
- The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection (2017, neutral): “Unplanned pregnancies are globally pervasive, and in the Americas they may account for more than half of all pregnancies (105) (Fig.”