All around the world, in mainly developing countries, the topic of sex education and contraceptives/birth control has been seen as a taboo topic. This is an issue, since everyone is having sex, and the countries with the highest fertility rate (births per woman) are the ones that cannot afford those fertility rates. According to the World Population Review, the top ten countries with the highest fertility rates in 2016 were Niger, Burundi, Mali, Somalia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, and Afghanistan. This becomes an issue when 7 of these countries are on the poorest countries of the world list (IMF), with the others close behind. It may appear that these women are content and desire a high volume of children per family, however, it was revealed through a study done from the Guttmacher Institute an average of 74 million unintended pregnancies occur in developing regions every year. Women want to know about birth control and contraceptive possibilities, but the education and resources is somehow not readily available to them. There are also many, many women in these regions who do not want to explore contraceptive methods because of unwarranted stigma about side effects and health risks, such as menstrual disruption and infertility. Also, it was found by the same institute that unmarried women were unwilling to risk the social disapproval associated with seeking services.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262884/countries-with-the-highest-fertility-rates/