In 2020, Argentinian respondents were the most prone to agree with abortion as long as the woman so decides, among five Latin American countries surveyed. Up to 44 percent of respondents in Argentina agreed with that statement, while in Chile this figure stood at 41 percent. Mexico and Peru registered the highest share of respondents who thought abortion should be forbidden in any case, at 12 percent in both cases. Peruvian respondents were mostly distributed between allowing abortion only in certain circumstances (39 percent) and prohibiting the procedure except in life-threatening pregnancies (23 percent).
Public opinion on cases in which abortion should be allowed or forbidden in selected countries in Latin America in 2021
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Statistics on Abortion in Latin America
Overview
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- Basic Statistic Latin America: public opinion on abortion 2016-2021
- Basic Statistic Latin America: public opinion on abortion 2021, by country
Argentina
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- Basic Statistic Argentina: number of deaths due to abortion 2005-2019
- Basic Statistic Argentina: number of deaths due to abortion 2019, by age
- Basic Statistic Argentina: number of deaths due to abortion 2019, by location
- Basic Statistic Argentina: maternal mortality rate in 2019, by death cause
- Basic Statistic Public opinion on abortion decriminalization in Argentina 2020
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Brazil
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- Premium Statistic Brazil: number of post-abortion procedures 2008-2021, by type
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- Basic Statistic Brazil: public opinion on abortion 2022, by income level
- Basic Statistic Brazil: opinion on the incarceration of women due to abortion 2007-2018
Chile
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- Basic Statistic Main causes of legal abortions in Chile 2021
- Basic Statistic Legal abortions in Chile 2021, by cause and location
- Basic Statistic Chile: convictions for abortion 2015-2019
- Basic Statistic Chile: doctors who are abortion objectors 2019, by type
- Basic Statistic Chile: level of agreement with the abortion law 2021, by type
Colombia
4
Mexico
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- Basic Statistic Mexico City: legal abortion patient share 2007-2021, by age
- Basic Statistic Mexico: number of legal abortion patients 2007-2021, by residence
- Basic Statistic Mexico City: legal abortion patients 2007-2021, by method
- Basic Statistic Mexico: legal abortions 2007-2021, by marital status
- Basic Statistic Mexico: number of criminal cases due to abortion by state 2020
- Basic Statistic Mexico: public opinion on abortion by state 2019
Further related statistics
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- Argentina: public opinion on abortion 2016-2018
- Share of U.S. adults who knew someone who has had an abortion as of 2018
- U.S. adults who felt it was difficult to get an abortion in their community 2018
- Share of U.S. adults who felt it should not be difficult to get an abortion 2018
- Number of legal abortions in Poland 1994-2021, by reason
- Number of abortions worldwide 1990-1994 and 2010-2014, by region
- Number of legal abortions in Poland 1994-2021
- Number of abortions performed per 1,000 women in Spain 2020, by region
- Distribution of legal abortions in Oregon by ethnicity 2020
- Distribution of legal abortions in Michigan by ethnicity 2020
- Share of people in favor of legal abortion in Sweden 2017
- Distribution of legal abortions in Kentucky by race/ethnicity 2020
- Number of abortions performed in women under 20 in Spain 2020, by region
- Distribution of legal abortions in Oklahoma by ethnicity 2016
- Distribution of legal abortions in Maine by ethnicity 2016
- Opinion on abortion in Spain 2019
- Global views on abortion 2013
- Abortion numbers in Belgium 2006-2021
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Ipsos. (September 28, 2021). Public opinion on cases in which abortion should be allowed or forbidden in selected countries in Latin America in 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/995608/latin-america-opinion-abortion-country/
Ipsos. "Public opinion on cases in which abortion should be allowed or forbidden in selected countries in Latin America in 2021." Chart. September 28, 2021. Statista. Accessed March 26, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/995608/latin-america-opinion-abortion-country/
Ipsos. (2021). Public opinion on cases in which abortion should be allowed or forbidden in selected countries in Latin America in 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 26, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/995608/latin-america-opinion-abortion-country/
Ipsos. "Public Opinion on Cases in Which Abortion Should Be Allowed or Forbidden in Selected Countries in Latin America in 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 28 Sep 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/995608/latin-america-opinion-abortion-country/
Ipsos, Public opinion on cases in which abortion should be allowed or forbidden in selected countries in Latin America in 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/995608/latin-america-opinion-abortion-country/ (last visited March 26, 2023)
Public opinion on cases in which abortion should be allowed or forbidden in selected countries in Latin America in 2021 [Graph], Ipsos, September 28, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/995608/latin-america-opinion-abortion-country/