Nigeria 'Records' 1.37 Million Unwanted Pregnancies

A 2018 global family planning report has revealed that Nigeria recorded 1,371,000 unwanted pregnancies in 2018 alone.

The report also said the nation also recorded 735,000 unsafe abortion in the year under review.

According to the report which was unveiled at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, only 13.8 per cent of Nigerian women use contraceptives in 2018.

The 2018 global family planning report defines unintended pregnancies as “the number of pregnancies that occurred at a time when women (and their partners) either did not want additional children or wanted to delay the next birth”.

This is “usually measured with regard to last or recent pregnancies, including current pregnancies”.





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