Guttmacher Data Center

Country	Average annual no. of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49, 2015-2019	% of women aged 15–49 who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	% of women aged 15–19 who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	% of urban women aged 15–49 who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	% of rural women aged 15–49 who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	Among women aged 15–49 in union, % who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	Among women aged 15–49 formerly in union, % who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	Among women aged 15–49 never in union, % who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	Among women aged 15–49 in the poorest wealth quintile, % who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a	Among women aged 15–49 in the richest wealth quintile, % who want to avoid pregnancy, 2019 a
China	49	74	2	74	74	88	58	32	77	73
Sources	Sources: 3	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2	Sources: 1, 2

Women who want to avoid a pregnancy are considered to be in need of contraception. They are women who are married or who are unmarried and sexually active, who are able to become pregnant and who do not want a child in the next two years; women who are pregnant and identify their pregnancy as unintended; and women experiencing postpartum amenorrhea after an unintended pregnancy.
u = unavailable
n/a = not applicable

Sully EA et al., Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health 2019, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2020, https://www.guttmacher.org/report/adding-it-up-investing-in-sexual-reproductive-health-2019.
Sully EA et al., Adding It Up all women dataset, Open Science Framework, 2021, https://osf.io/m85s9/.
Bearak J et al., Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019, BMJ Global Health, 2022, 7(3), https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/e007151.

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