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Highlights

  • Roe v. Wade Overturned
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Reproductive Health Impact Study
  • Adding It Up
  • Abortion Worldwide
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
  • State legislation tracker

Reports

  • Global
  • U.S.

Articles

  • Global research
  • U.S. research
  • Policy analysis
  • Guttmacher Policy Review
  • Op-eds & external blogs

Fact Sheets

  • Global
  • U.S.
  • U.S. State Laws and Policies

Data & Visualizations

  • Data center
  • Infographics
  • Public-use data sets

Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Global

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

U.S.

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

Our Work By Geography

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  • Africa
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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 outcomes of unintended pregnancy and abortion and on exploring the informal acquisition of misoprostol. The Institute also has estimated age-specific abortion rates and health system costs of providing postabortion care; documented adolescents’ knowledge and use of sexual and reproductive health information and services; and assessed the provision of sex education and advocated that it be fact-based, comprehensive and responsive to their needs.

The Institute's ongoing Adding It Up project provides estimates (regional, subregional and country-specific) of the needs for modern contraception, maternal and newborn care, and abortion-related services among women in low- and middle-income Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories. This work also estimates the costs and impacts of meeting these needs, providing policymakers across the region with evidence that investment in improving and increasing the provision of sexual and reproductive health services saves lives, improves women’s health and well-being, and has broad societal benefits.

In addition, the Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide study has produced model-based estimates of the incidence of unintended pregnancy and abortion in Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories for the period 1990–2019. Such estimates provide an opportunity to assess trends in unintended pregnancy and abor­tion over time for individual countries and territories, as well as regionally and globally.

Explore data and resources for 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries using the “Select a country profile” box on this page.

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  • News Release

    Guttmacher Institute Releases Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles for More Than 130 Countries

  • Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Fact Sheet

    Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 24M

    women in Latin America and the Caribbean who want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a modern contraceptive method
  • 75%

    reduction in newborn deaths in the region that would result from meeting the need for modern contraception and maternal and newborn care
  • 760,000

    women are hospitalized annually for treatment of complications of unsafe abortion

Resources

  • 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 Infographic

    Benefits of investing in sexual and reproductive health

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 News Release

    Greater Investments Needed to Meet Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Developing Regions

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2017 Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    A critical moment to increase investments in meeting women’s family planning needs

    Ann M. Starrs,BMJ Opinion

    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
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Resources for teachers on 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
Guttmacher Institute
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