Presents information from JSTOR on the journal "International Family Planning Perspectives," published quarterly by the Alan Guttmacher Institute of Washington, D.C. The publication is a peer-reviewed journal which contains research devoted to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Notes that family planning is defined to include contraceptive practice; fertility levels, trends and determinants; adolescent pregnancy; abortion; public policies and legal issues affecting childbearing; program operation, development and evaluation; information, education and communication activities; sexually transmitted diseases; and reproductive, maternal and child health. Allows users to search or browse the journal and the entire JSTOR journal collection. Links to the Institute's home page.

The main contents are key findings and messages regarding the relationship between contraceptive use and fertility, for 195 countries or areas of the world. These highlights will draw mainly from World Population Prospects 2019, and model-based estimates and projections of family planning indicators 2019. Policy-related implications of and responses to trends in family planning and fertility will be integrated throughout the text. In particular, these issues are of relevance for contextualizing Sustainable Development Goals 3.7.1. and 3.7.2. and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.