Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990–2019
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Jonathan Bearak, Anna Popinchalk, Bela Ganatra
The global unintended pregnancy rate has declined, whereas the proportion of unintended pregnancies ending in abortion has increased, and the global average abortion rate in 2015-19 was roughly equal to the estimates for 1990-94.
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UK Aid from the UK Government, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.