[Eloquent figures on natality and abortion]. / Cifras eloquentes sobre natalidad y aborto.

PIP: In 1967 Chile began a policy of family planning education, and of information about contraception, making available to women all over the country a series of family planning and contraceptive services. This policy has given the following results: 1) birth rate, which was 33-38/1000 between 1964-1967, was 23.4/1000 in 1976; 2) 56,391 women were hospitalized for abortion in 1964, compared to 42,155 in 1975; 3) maternal mortality, which was 10%, has decreased to 4.45%, and, 4) infant mortality has gone from 2.79-3.3/1000 in 1956-57, to 1.16-2.11/1000 in the 1970s.^ieng