Expenditures on Population Programs in Developing Regions: Current Levels and Future Requirements

摘要

From data on population program expenditures in 46 countries, estimates are derived for total expenditures in the major regions of the developing world in 1980. In all, about $2 billion was spent by external donors and developing country governments on population programs: $1.2 billion in East and Southeast Asia, $300 million in South Asia, $200 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, and $100 million each in the Middle East and North Africa and in sub-Saharan Africa. Private family planning expenditures, estimated from data on the cost of different contraceptive methods and on nonprogram contraceptive use, added over $500 million to the total. Future resource requirements up to the year 2000 are estimated assuming constant costs per contraceptive user, with numbers of users derived from alternative population projections.