Historical abortion statistics, Azerbaijan

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Historical abortion statistics, Azerbaijan

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 6 June 2026

Definition of table data (see notes after table for additional information):

Live births.
Abortions, reported includes legal reported induced abortions.
Abortions (AWR) are combined reported and estimated abortion occurrences from the Abortion Worldwide Report and working papers.
Abortions, residents, in country only includes reported abortions obtained within the country by residents only.
Abortions, residents, obtained abroad includes reported abortions by country residents obtained in other countries.
Abortions, residents, total includes reported abortions by residents, obtained both within the country and abroad.
Fetal deaths generally includes fetal deaths or stillbirths of at least 20 weeks` gestation.
Miscarriages generally includes spontaneous fetal losses/ abortions, fetal deaths, or stillbirths, regardless of gestation period.
Abortion ratio is abortions per 1000 live births.
Abortion % is abortions as percentage of pregnancies (excluding fetal deaths/miscarriages).
Abortion rate, residents is abortions by residency per 1000 women ages 15-49.
Abortion rate, occurrences (AWR) is abortion occurrences from Abortion Worldwide Report figures per 1000 women ages 15-39.

year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	miscarriages	fetal deaths	abortion ratio		abortion %		abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurrences (AWR)
year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	miscarriages	fetal deaths	residents, in/out of country	all in country	residents, in/out of country	all in country	abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurrences (AWR)
1935	65,245
1936	75,761
1937	110,341
1938	99,729
1939	101,529
1940	96,981
1941	75,735
1942	53,410
1943	28,958
1944	33,564
1945	39,818
1946	62,727
1947	80,046
1948	78,324
1949	83,760
1950	90,280
1951	100,979
1952	106,687
1953	101,378
1954	117,428
1955	125,599		(5,000)
1956	134,594		(11,000)
1957	139,529		(18,000)
1958	147,534		(27,000)
1959	155,872		(37,000)
1960	165,849		(50,000)					979
1961	170,504		(54,000)
1962	168,341		(56,000)
1963	175,033		(60,000)
1964	176,546		(63,000)
1965	167,429	62,740	62,740	(62,740)		62,740		1,088	374.7	374.7	27.26	27.26
1966	166,545		(62,800)					1,194
1967	157,270		(59,800)					1,181
1968	158,962		(60,800)					1,203
1969	148,078		(57,100)					1,219
1970	150,976	58,574	58,574	(58,574)		58,574		1,224	388.0	388.0	27.95	27.95
1971	146,261	64,943	64,943	(64,943)		64,943		1,228	444.0	444.0	30.75	30.75
1972	137,752	60,307	60,307	(60,307)		60,307		1,253	437.8	437.8	30.45	30.45
1973	138,569	55,592	55,592	(55,592)		55,592		1,267	401.2	401.2	28.63	28.63
1974	139,084	63,213	63,213	(63,213)		63,213		1,268	454.5	454.5	31.25	31.25
1975	141,857	58,512	58,512	(58,512)		58,512		1,260	412.5	412.5	29.20	29.20	48.7
1976	147,199	59,798	59,798	(59,798)		59,798		1,278	406.2	406.2	28.89	28.89
1977	146,822	61,724	61,724	(61,724)		61,724		1,377	420.4	420.4	29.60	29.60
1978	148,812	62,660	62,660	(62,660)		62,660		1,394	421.1	421.1	29.63	29.63
1979	153,080	65,536	65,536	(65,536)		65,536		1,409	428.1	428.1	29.98	29.98
1980	154,974	61,831	61,831	(61,831)		61,831		1,443	399.0	399.0	28.52	28.52	43.3
1981	164,577	59,551	59,551	(59,551)		59,551		1,527	361.8	361.8	26.57	26.57
1982	160,425	63,680	63,680	(63,680)		63,680		1,520	396.9	396.9	28.42	28.42	43.1
1983	166,169	57,473	57,473	(57,473)		57,473		1,553	345.9	345.9	25.70	25.70
1984	171,913	57,619	57,619	(57,619)		57,619		1,593	335.2	335.2	25.10	25.10	37.7
1985	177,657	53,633	53,633	(53,633)		53,633		1,695	301.9	301.9	23.19	23.19
1986	186,609	51,431	51,431	(51,431)		51,431		1,820	275.6	275.6	21.61	21.61	32.4
1987	184,585	49,478	49,478	(49,478)		49,478		1,893	268.0	268.0	21.14	21.14
1988	184,350	44,074	44,074	(44,074)		44,074		1,706	239.1	239.1	19.29	19.29	26.4
1989	181,631	42,134	42,134	(42,134)		42,134		1,639	232.0	232.0	18.83	18.83	21.5
1990	182,989	25,536	25,536	(25,536)		25,536		1,774	139.5	139.5	12.25	12.25	14.3	15.46
1991	190,353	34,006	34,006	(34,006)		34,006		2,440	178.6	178.6	15.16	15.16	19.6	20.35
1992	181,364	32,287	32,287	(32,287)		32,287		1,944	178.0	178.0	15.11	15.11	18.5	19.07
1993	174,618	33,951	33,951	(33,951)		33,951		1,904	194.4	194.4	16.28	16.28	19.2	19.78
1994	159,761	33,354	33,354	(33,354)		33,354		1,719	208.8	208.8	17.27	17.27	18.8	19.19
1995	143,315	28,700	28,700	(28,700)		28,700		1,354	200.3	200.3	16.68	16.68	16.2	16.33
1996	129,247	28,418	28,418	(28,418)		28,418		1,360	219.9	219.9	18.02	18.02	16.0	16.01
1997	132,052	25,228	25,228	(25,228)		25,228		1,470	191.0	191.0	16.04	16.04	12.0	14.08
1998	123,996	24,942	24,942	(24,942)		24,942		1,709	201.2	201.2	16.75	16.75	11.5	13.81
1999	117,539	20,911	20,911	(20,911)		20,911		1,490	177.9	177.9	15.10	15.10	9.3	11.48
2000	116,994	17,529	17,529	(17,529)		17,529		1,556	149.8	149.8	13.03	13.03	7.7	9.56
2001	110,356	18,361	18,361	(18,361)		18,361		1,585	166.4	166.4	14.26	14.26	7.9	9.95
2002	110,715	16,635	16,635	(16,635)		16,635	260	1,436	150.3	150.3	13.06	13.06	7.0	8.94
2003	113,467	16,912	16,912	(16,912)		16,912	271	1,443	149.0	149.0	12.97	12.97	6.9	9.01
2004	131,609	19,806	19,806	(19,806)		19,806	277	1,672	150.5	150.5	13.08	13.08	8.0	10.46
2005	141,900	19,586	19,586	(19,586)		19,586	295	1,622	138.0	138.0	12.13	12.13	7.8	10.24
2006	148,946	20,867	20,867	(20,867)		20,867		1,680	140.1	140.1	12.29	12.29	8.1	10.79
2007	151,963	22,325	22,325	(22,325)		22,325		1,838	146.9	146.9	12.81	12.81	8.6	11.41
2008	152,086	25,256	25,256	(25,256)		25,256		1,819	166.1	166.1	14.24	14.24	7.6	12.77
2009	152,139	24,562	24,562	(24,562)		24,562		1,719	161.4	161.4	13.90	13.90	7.4	12.31
2010	165,643	26,801	26,801	(26,801)		26,801		2,054	161.8	161.8	13.93	13.93	7.4	13.37
2011	176,072	27,790	27,790	(27,790)		27,790		1,988	157.8	157.8	13.63	13.63	9.3	13.85
2012	174,469	31,037	31,037	(28,779)		28,779		1,911	165.0	177.9	14.16	15.10	10.9	15.46
2013	172,671	27,892	27,892	(27,892)		27,892		1,835	161.5	161.5	13.91	13.91	10.4	13.89
2014	170,503	27,220	27,220	(27,220)		27,220		1,551	159.6	159.6	13.77	13.77	10.1	13.57
2015	166,210	27,452	27,452	(27,452)		27,452		1,153	165.2	165.2	14.18	14.18	10.3	13.72
2016	159,464	34,569	34,569	(34,569)		34,569		1,234	216.8	216.8	17.82	17.82	13.0	17.36
2017	144,041	37,618	37,618	(37,618)		37,618		1,379	261.2	261.2	20.71	20.71	14.2	19.02
2018	138,982	36,141	36,141	(36,141)		36,141		907	260.0	260.0	20.64	20.64	13.7	18.40
2019	141,179	37,308	37,308	(37,308)		37,308		717	264.3	264.3	20.90	20.90	14.2	19.07
2020	126,571	34,719	34,719	(34,719)		34,719		736	274.3	274.3	21.53	21.53	13.3	17.79
2021	112,284	46,877	46,877	(46,877)		46,877		804	417.5	417.5	29.45	29.45	17.9	24.07
2022	122,846	57,999	57,999	(57,999)		57,999			472.1	472.1	32.07	32.07	22.1	29.87
2023	112,620	73,816	73,816	(73,816)		73,816			655.4	655.4	39.59	39.59		38.16
2024	102,310	78,245	78,245	(78,245)		78,245			764.8	764.8	43.34	43.34		40.71
2025			(83,000)
year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	miscarriages	fetal deaths	abortion ratio		abortion %		abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurrences (AWR)
year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	miscarriages	fetal deaths	residents, in/out of country	all in country	residents, in/out of country	all in country	abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurrences (AWR)

Notes:

Parenthetical figures are estimates, some of which are derived from reported data.
Abortion ratios, percentages, and rates may be based on a mix of data from different sources and thus may not represent a consistent time series.

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