Abortion (cont.)

Abortion rate

Abortion is one of the most difficult health outcomes to quantify, more data and estimation methods have been improved in recent years.

The figure below shows abortion rates (number of abortions per 1,000 women) in the world. Click on the buttons or on the map to show these rates by region.

Figure 10: Abortion rate worldwide, 2008

Source: Guttmacher Institute, Worldwide abortion: legality, incidence and safety, media kit, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2012, http://www.guttmacher.org/media/presskits/abortion-WW/index.html , accessed 25/07/2012.

According the data above, abortion rate is the highest in Eastern European region.