Historical abortion statistics, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 14 November 2021

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

Live births
Abortions, reported includes official data from the national statistics office with some data from provincial agencies.
Abortions (AWR) are combined reported and estimated abortion occurrences from the Abortion Worldwide Report working papers.
Miscarriages may include stillbirths and/or spontaneous early miscarriages.
Abortion ratio is abortions per 1000 live births.
Abortion % is abortions as percentage of pregnancies (excluding fetal deaths/miscarriages).
Abortion rate is abortions per 1000 women ages 15-44.

year	live births	abortions, reported (official)		abortions, occurrences, estimated (AWR)	miscarriages	abortion ratio		abortion %		abortion rate
year	live births	all in area	residents, in and out of area	abortions, occurrences, estimated (AWR)	miscarriages	all in area	residents, in/out of area	all in area	residents, in/out of area	all in area	residents, in/out of area
1959	14,826
1960	15,173
1961	15,591
1962	15,064
1963	15,443
1964	14,680
1965	14,740
1966	14,084
1967	12,844
1968	12,820
1969	13,000
1970	12,539		25				2.0		0.20
1971	12,767		78				6.1		0.61		0.72
1972	12,898		133				10.3		1.02		1.19
1973	11,895		193				16.2		1.60		1.68
1974	11,504		184		1,276		16.0		1.57		1.57
1975	11,213		176		1,265		15.7		1.55		1.46
1976	11,130		418		1,194		37.6		3.62		3.38
1977	11,110		493		1,108		44.4		4.25		3.91
1978	10,480		537		1,018		51.2		4.87		4.19
1979	10,170		645		950		63.4		5.96		4.94
1980	10,332		539		950		52.2		4.96		4.03
1981	10,130		470		934		46.4		4.43		3.44
1982	9,173		457		960		49.8		4.75		3.32
1983	8,929		483		901		54.1		5.13		3.43
1984	8,560		382		895		44.6		4.27		2.69
1985	8,500		415		827		48.8		4.66		2.90
1986	7,998		367		777		45.9		4.39		2.56
1987	7,731		475		731		61.4		5.79		3.29
1988	7,427		472		723		63.6		5.98		3.27
1989	7,762		467		744		60.2		5.68		3.22
1990	7,604		528		749		69.4		6.49		3.63
1991	7,166				660
1992	6,918		1,034		545		149.5		13.00		7.13
1993	6,421		924		538		143.9		12.58		6.40
1994	6,339	858	891		541	135.4	140.6	11.92	12.32	6.07	6.30
1995	5,859	870	896		417	148.5	152.9	12.93	13.26	6.27	6.46
1996	5,747	812	846		352	141.3	147.2	12.38	12.83	6.01	6.26
1997	5,416	819	837		326	151.2	154.5	13.14	13.39	6.24	6.38
1998	4,994	803	820		276	160.8	164.2	13.85	14.10	6.34	6.47
1999	5,055	834	851		223	165.0	168.3	14.16	14.41	6.77	6.90
2000	4,869	871	898	871	160	178.9	184.4	15.17	15.57	7.25	7.47
2001	4,716	859	883	859	153	182.1	187.2	15.41	15.77	7.33	7.54
2002	4,651	798	814	798	130	171.6	175.0	14.64	14.89	6.96	7.10
2003	4,629	880	895	880	134	190.1	193.3	15.97	16.20	7.82	7.96
2004	4,488	901	902	901	120	200.8	201.0	16.72	16.73	8.17	8.17
2005	4,501	877	883	877	140	194.8	196.2	16.31	16.40	8.13	8.18
2006	4,542	894	896	894		196.8	197.3	16.45	16.48	8.51	8.53
2007	4,553	850	288	850	35	186.7	63.3	15.73	5.95	8.26	2.80
2008	4,898	904	291	904		184.6	59.4	15.58	5.61	8.88	2.86
2009	4,915	956	287	956		194.5	58.4	16.28	5.52	9.45	2.84
2010	4,900	1,068	305	1,068		218.0	62.2	17.90	5.86	10.62	3.03
2011	4,478	1,026	242	1,026		229.1	54.0	18.64	5.13	10.29	2.43
2012	4,382	1,054	197	1,054		240.5	45.0	19.39	4.30	10.71	2.00
2013	4,525	223	238	(1,050)		49.3	52.6	4.70	5.00	(10.8)	2.46
2014	4,569	1,051	184	1,051		230.0	40.3	18.70	3.87	11.02	1.93
2015	4,475	1,019	164	1,019		227.7	36.6	18.55	3.54	10.86	1.75
2016	4,442	978	149	978		220.2	33.5	18.04	3.25	10.58	1.61
2017	4,100	987	147	987		240.7	35.9	19.40	3.46	10.85	1.62
2018	4,014	1,017	118	1,017		253.4	29.4	20.21	2.86	11.40	1.32
2019	3,753	999	89	999		266.2	23.7	21.02	2.32
2020	3,572
year	live births	abortions, reported (official)		abortions, occurrences, estimated (AWR)	miscarriages	abortion ratio		abortion %		abortion rate
year	live births	all in area	residents, in and out of area	abortions, occurrences, estimated (AWR)	miscarriages	all in area	residents, in/out of area	all in area	residents, in/out of area	all in area	residents, in/out of area

Notes:

Official data may be incomplete.
Parenthetical figures are estimates, some of which are derived from reported data.
Some miscarriage data includes only stillbirths, some data includes known early miscarriages, thus this series is not a consistent time series.
Abortion rates may be based on a mix of national or provincial agency data and thus may not represent a consistent time series.

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