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Induced Abortion Worldwide. (Facts in Brief).(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Readings on Induced Abortion, Volume 2: A World Review 2000
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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SEX AND FERTILITY
* An estimated 1.38 billion women in the world are of childbearing age (15--44). During most of their childbearing years, women are sexually active but do not want to have a child.
* Initiation of sexual intercourse--as part of or apart from marriage--by age 20 is common. 77% of women in developed countries have had intercourse by age 20, compared with 83% in Sub-Saharan Africa and 56% in Latin America and the Caribbean.
* In many countries, couples have more children than they desire--or have a child at a time that they do not want one. For example, in Kenya, the average woman has 6 children, and the desired family size is 4; ...