Half of the 1.2 million pregnancies in the country were unintended and nearly 359,000 ended in abortion in 2017.
Arjun Poudel
March 31, 2022
Nearly half of the pregnancies in Nepal are unintended and close to two-thirds of them ended in abortion, according to a recent report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
The UNFPA’s “State of World Population 2022” report titled, “Seeing the Unseen”, says half of the 1.2 million pregnancies in 2017 in Nepal were unintended and nearly 359,000 were aborted.