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International Abortion

Cost

The costs of treating medical complications from unsafe abortion constitute a significant financial burden for developing countries’ public health care systems. The Guttmacher Institute estimates the health, social and economic consequences of unsafe abortion and quantifies these costs at the national, regional and global levels.

  • Legality and Safety
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  • Fact Sheet

    The Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda

  • Research Article

    Severity and Cost of Unsafe Abortion Complications Treated in Nigerian Hospitals

  • The Cost of Postabortion Care and Legal Abortion In Colombia

Top Facts & Statistics

  • $232M

    estimated annual cost of postabortion care in developing countries
  • 22,700

    women (at minimum) die annually worldwide from complications of unsafe abortion
  • $562M

    estimated annual cost of fully meeting the need for postabortion care in developing countries

Resources

  • Adding it Up Pakistan image: world map with country of Pakistan highlighted and the words, "Adding it Up Pakistan"
    September 2019 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health in Pakistan

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  • Adding it Up Pakistan image: world map with country of Pakistan highlighted and the words, "Adding it Up Pakistan"
    September 2019 Report

    Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive and Maternal and Newborn Health Needs of Women in Pakistan

    Aparna Sundaram,Rubina Hussain,Zeba A. Sathar,Sabahat Hussain,Emma PliskinandEva Weissman

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  • December 2017 Fact Sheet

    Vue d’ensemble: Investir dans la contraception et la santé maternelle et néonatale, 2017

    International

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  • December 2017 Fact Sheet

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

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  • December 2017 Fact Sheet

    Haciendo cuentas: Invertir en anticoncepción y salud materna y neonatal, 2017

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  • September 2015 Report

    Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Indicators for the SDGs

    Sneha Barot,Susan A. Cohen,Jacqueline E. Darroch,Alanna J. Galati,Chelsea Polis,Ann M. StarrsandSusheela Singh

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  • September 2015 Research Article

    Incidence of Induced Abortion and Post-Abortion Care in Tanzania

    Sarah Keogh,Jesse PhilbinandAkinrinola Bankole,PLOS ONE

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  • January 2014 Fact Sheet

    Abortion in Burkina Faso

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  • January 2014 Fact Sheet

    Avortement au Burkina Faso

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  • February 2013 News Release

    In Uganda, Slow Pace in Scaling Up Access to Reproductive Health Care Services Costing Thousands of Lives and Billions of Shillings

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Hear From An Expert

In developing countries, the poorest women typically are at greatest risk of experiencing serious complications from unsafe abortion. They are least likely to have access to high-quality family planning services, safe abortion procedures and postabortion care when they need treatment for complications.

Susheela Singh

Vice President for International Research

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