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  • COVID-19 impact
  • IPSRH: Focus on Abortion
  • Adding It Up
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  • State legislation tracker

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  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
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  • Abortion
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  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

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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

  • Fact Sheet

    Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide

  • Policy Analysis

    Crisis on the Horizon: Devastating Losses for Global Reproductive Health Are Possible Due to COVID-19

  • Photo of woman with a green background with the words Adding It Up across the bottom
    Initiatives

    Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 24M

    women want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a modern method of contraception
  • 24M

    women in Latin America and the Caribbean who want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a modern contraceptive method
  • 32

    abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49 in Latin America occurred annually in 2015-2019

Resources

  • June 2017 Infographic

    Unmet need for modern contraception, 2017

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    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Savings associated with investment in contraceptive services, 2017

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Costs and benefits of investing in contraception and maternal and newborn health, 2017

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Unintended pregnancies among women with unmet need for modern contraception, 2017

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Disparities in modern contraceptive use, 2017

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Disparities in pregnancy-related care, 2017

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Benefits of investing in both contraception and maternal and newborn care, 2017

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Policy Analysis

    When Antiabortion Ideology Turns into Foreign Policy: How the Global Gag Rule Erodes Health, Ethics and Democracy

    Sneha Barot,Guttmacher Policy Review

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Report

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

    Ana Silvia Monzón, Sarah Keogh, Ana Lucía Ramazzini, Elena Prada, Melissa Stillman and Ellie Leong

    Global

    • Teens
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Comprehensiveness of sexuality education, Guatemala

    Global

    • Teens

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Twenty-four million women in Latin America and the Caribbean have an unmet need for modern contraception. Providing women with the family planning care they need would prevent more than nine million unintended pregnancies every year.

Susheela Singh

Distinguished Scholar and Vice President for Global Science and Policy Integration

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