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Latin America & the Caribbean

The Guttmacher Institute’s work in Latin America and the Caribbean has focused on documenting the incidence and consequences of abortion and unintended pregnancy, and supporting strategies that enable women to better time and space their pregnancies. The Institute also has estimated age-specific abortion rates and the cost of providing postabortion care; documented adolescents’ knowledge and use of sexual and reproductive health information and services; and promoted fact-based, comprehensive sex education and youth-friendly, confidential services.

View sexual and reproductive health research and analysis in your location

  • Report

    From Paper to Practice: Sexuality Education Policies and Curricula and Their Implementation in Guatemala

  • Fact Sheet

    Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • News Release

    In Peru, Sexuality Education in Schools Must Be Strengthened

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 3 in 4

    surveyed teachers in Peru say they lack teaching materials on sexuality education
  • 24M

    women want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a modern method of contraception
  • 760,000

    women are hospitalized annually for treatment of complications of unsafe abortion

Resources

  • December 2017 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

    International

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • December 2017 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health, 2017

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    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • October 2017 News in Context

    Guttmacher at the IUSSP 2017 International Population Conference

  • September 2017 News Release

    Worldwide, an Estimated 25 Million Unsafe Abortions Occur Each Year

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    • Abortion
  • September 2017 Infographic

    Safety of abortions worldwide

    International

    • Abortion
  • September 2017 Infographic

    Disparities in safety of abortions, by country income

    International

    • Abortion
  • September 2017 Research Article

    Global, regional, and subregional classification of abortions by safety, 2010–14: estimates from a Bayesian hierarchical model

    Bela Ganatra,Caitlin Gerdts,Clémentine Rossier,Brooke Ronald Johnson,Özge Tunçalp,Anisa Assifi,Gilda Sedgh,Susheela Singh,Akinrinola Bankole,Anna Popinchalk,Jonathan Bearak,Zhenning KangandLeontine Alkema,The Lancet

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    • Abortion
  • August 2017 News Release

    New issue of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health now available

  • August 2017 Policy Analysis

    The Benefits of Investing in International Family Planning—and the Price of Slashing Funding

    Sneha Barot,Guttmacher Policy Review

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    • Contraception
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  • July 2017 News Release

    New 14-Country Study Highlights Reasons Women Obtain Abortions

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