Pregnancy Termination: Statistics
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Abortion
- Abortion facts and figures, 2011Deborah Mesce, Donna Clifton
Population Reference Bureau - Legal abortion worldwide in 2008: Levels and recent trendsGilda Sedgh, Susheela Singh, Stanley K. Henshaw, Akinrinola Bankole
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 37 (2): 84-94. - Unsafe abortion in 2008: Global and regional levels and trends.Iqbal Shah, Elisabeth Ahman
Reproductive Health Matters, 18 (36): 90-101. (2010)
• Most up-to-date estimates of global and regional unsafe abortion rates
*Ask your librarian for access to this article - Abortion worldwide: A decade of uneven progressSingh, Susheela; Wulf, Deirdre; Hussain, Rubina; Bankole, Akinrinola; Sedgh, Gilda.
New York NY: Guttmacher Institute, 2009 - Abortion Laws of the WorldHarvard
- Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States, 2008.Jones, Rachel K; Kathryn Kooistra.
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 43 (1): 41-50. 2011.
• Latest statistics for abortion in the US
Family Planning
- Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health.Singh S et al. New York: Guttmacher Institute and United Nations Population Fund, 2009.
- Impact of contraceptive failure on unintended births and induced abortions: Estimates and strategies for reductionBradley, Sarah E. K.; Croft, Trevor, N.; Rutstein, Shea O. Calverton MD: ICF Macro, 2011.
- The economic consequences of reproductive health and family planning.Canning D, Schultz TP. Lancet. 2012 Jul 14; 380 (9837): 165-71.
Maternal Mortality
These two documents were published at about the same time (2010) but give differing numbers for maternal mortality rates. This discrepancy could be due to the different estimation techniques used. Both of these documents are thought to give the most up-to-date maternal mortality numbers.
- Trends in maternal mortality, 1990 to 2008Chou, Doris; Inoue, Mie; Mathers, Colin; Oestergaard, Mikkel; Say, Lale; Mills, Samuel; Suzuki, Emi; Wilmoth, John.
Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization (WHO) 2010. - Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: A systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.Margaret C. Hogan, Kyle J. Foreman, Mohsen Naghavi, Stephanie Y. Ahn, Mengru Wang, Susanna M. Makela, Alan D. Lopez, Rafael Lozano, Christopher J. L. Murray.
Lancet, 375 (9726): 1609-1623. 2010.
Other Demographic and Health Indicators
- Population Reference Bureau DataFinderFeatures:
• Select indicators by individual country or region
• “Indicators on women” section for each geographic area
• Most up-to-date for demographic indicators
Indicators of interest:
• Lifetime risk of maternal death
• Pregnancies mistimed (%)
• Pregnancies unwanted (%)
• Unmet need for family planning (%)
• Several more relating to family planning - Demographic and Health Survey DatasetsFor latest in-depth demographic information on specific countries
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