Sources:
- 225 million women in developing countries have an unmet need for family planning (Guttmacher, 2014)
- The impact of the unmet need:
- 74 million unplanned pregnancies (Guttmacher, 2014)
- 28 million unplanned births (Guttmacher, 2014)
- 36 million abortions every year (Guttmacher, 2014)
- Spending one dollar for contraceptive services reduces the cost of pregnancy-related care by $1.47 (Guttmacher, 2014)
- Investing $9.4 billion annually to fully meet the need for modern contraceptive services would…
- Reduce unintended pregnancies by 70% (Guttmacher, 2014)
- Reduce unsafe abortions by 74% (Guttmacher, 2014)
- Decrease maternal deaths by 25% (Guttmacher, unpublished)
- Drop newborn deaths by 18% (Guttmacher, unpublished)
