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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Fam Plann. 2014 Dec;45(4):471–491. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2014.00004.x

TABLE 2.

Number of live births, number of women treated in health facilities for abortion complications or late spontaneous abortion, and number of women treated for complications of induced abortion, among women aged 15–49, nationally and by province, Pakistan, 2012

National/province Number of women a Number of births a Number of women treated in health facilities
Number of women treated for complications of induced abortionb
All abortion-related complications Complications related to late spontaneous abortion Low Medium High
Pakistan 44,745,059 5,464,548 712,380 89,816 505,792 622,564 739,335
Punjab 25,536,418 3,103,800 416,433 51,332 243,318 365,101 486,884
Sindh 10,595,223 1,276,804 174,908 25,514 89,130 149,394 209,658
KP 6,351,539 796,182 80,426 10,996 19,680 69,430 119,181
Baluchistan 2,261,879 287,762 40,613 3,876 10,591 36,737 62,883

KP = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

a

Based on estimates prepared by the Population Council. National totals exclude certain territories not covered by this study (see footnote 1).

b

See “Methodology” section for explanation of how the number of women treated for induced-abortion complications is estimated. Low and high estimates are lower and upper bounds of the confidence interval around the estimated number of women treated for abortion complications (medium), based on the 2012 Health Facilities Survey. Low and high values for provinces do not add up to national totals, because they are based on the confidence interval around each province’s mean value and around the national mean value, respectively; the medium values do not add up because of rounding.

SOURCE: Health Facilities Survey 2012.