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Global Contraception

Costs and Benefits

Focusing on developing countries—and the poorest countries, in particular—the Guttmacher Institute calculates the global, regional and country-level health costs associated with unmet need for contraception and the public health and economic benefits of meeting women’s contraceptive needs. 

  • Costs and Benefits
  • Policy Analysis

    Just $10 Per Person a Year Could Provide Sexual and Reproductive Health Services to All—Will the United States Help Make That Happen?

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    Just the Numbers: The Impact of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance, 2020

  • Fact Sheet

    Investing in Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 68%

    approximate reduction in unintended pregnancies if all unmet need for modern contraception were satisfied in low- and middle-income countries
  • $10.60

    the annual per-person cost in LMICs to meet the need for essential sexual and reproductive health services
  • $1.00

    the annual per capita cost to meet the need for essential adolescent sexual and reproductive health services

Resources

  • September 2019 Research Article

    Not all inequalities are equal: differences in coverage across the continuum of reproductive health services

    Elizabeth Sully, Ann Biddlecom and Jacqueline E. Darroch,BMJ Global Health

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    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • Adding it Up Pakistan image: world map with country of Pakistan highlighted and the words, "Adding it Up Pakistan"
    September 2019 News Release

    Additional Funding for Provision of Maternal Health Services and Modern Contraceptive Care Will Save Lives of Pakistani Women and Newborns

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • 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

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • 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 Pliskin and Eva Weissman

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    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • Image: Adding It Up Nigeria
    April 2019 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health in Nigeria, 2018

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    • Contraception
  • April 2019 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia, 2018

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    • Contraception
  • April 2019 Infographic

    The Impact of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance 2019

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • April 2019 Policy Analysis

    Just the Numbers: The Impact of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance, 2019

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • March 2019 News Release

    In Uganda, Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Information Fall Short for Adolescents

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    • Contraception
    • Teens
  • March 2019 Fact Sheet

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

    Global

    • Contraception

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