Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive
Historical abortion statistics, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 31 May 2026
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 |
|---|
| all in area | residents, in and out of area |
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 | 4,874 | 871 | 898 | 871 | 160 | 178.7 | 184.2 | 15.16 | 15.56 | 7.25 | 7.47 |
| 2001 | 4,718 | 859 | 883 | 859 | 153 | 182.1 | 187.2 | 15.40 | 15.77 | 7.33 | 7.54 |
| 2002 | 4,657 | 798 | 814 | 798 | 130 | 171.4 | 174.8 | 14.63 | 14.88 | 6.96 | 7.10 |
| 2003 | 4,631 | 880 | 895 | 880 | 134 | 190.0 | 193.3 | 15.97 | 16.20 | 7.82 | 7.96 |
| 2004 | 4,490 | 901 | 902 | 901 | 120 | 200.7 | 200.9 | 16.71 | 16.73 | 8.17 | 8.17 |
| 2005 | 4,503 | 877 | 883 | 877 | 140 | 194.8 | 196.1 | 16.30 | 16.39 | 8.13 | 8.18 |
| 2006 | 4,542 | 894 | 896 | 894 | 32 | 196.8 | 197.3 | 16.45 | 16.48 | 8.51 | 8.53 |
| 2007 | 4,557 | 850 | 288 | 850 | 35 | 186.5 | 63.2 | 15.72 | 5.94 | 8.26 | 2.80 |
| 2008 | 4,895 | 904 | 291 | 904 | 36 | 184.7 | 59.4 | 15.59 | 5.61 | 8.88 | 2.86 |
| 2009 | 4,918 | 956 | 287 | 956 | 37 | 194.4 | 58.4 | 16.28 | 5.51 | 9.45 | 2.84 |
| 2010 | 4,900 | 1,068 | 305 | 1,068 | 36 | 218.0 | 62.2 | 17.90 | 5.86 | 10.62 | 3.03 |
| 2011 | 4,480 | 1,026 | 242 | 1,026 | 29 | 229.0 | 54.0 | 18.63 | 5.12 | 10.29 | 2.43 |
| 2012 | 4,384 | 1,054 | 197 | 1,054 | 40 | 240.4 | 44.9 | 19.38 | 4.30 | 10.71 | 2.00 |
| 2013 | 4,537 | 223 | 238 | (1,050) | 42 | 231.4 | 52.5 | 18.79 | 4.98 | 10.84 | 2.46 |
| 2014 | 4,573 | 1,051 | 184 | 1,051 | 55 | 229.8 | 40.2 | 18.69 | 3.87 | 11.02 | 1.93 |
| 2015 | 4,481 | 1,019 | 164 | 1,019 | 30 | 227.4 | 36.6 | 18.53 | 3.53 | 10.85 | 1.75 |
| 2016 | 4,450 | 978 | 149 | 978 | 27 | 219.8 | 33.5 | 18.02 | 3.24 | 10.58 | 1.61 |
| 2017 | 4,104 | 987 | 147 | 987 | 26 | 240.5 | 35.8 | 19.39 | 3.46 | 10.85 | 1.62 |
| 2018 | 4,014 | 1,017 | 118 | 1,017 | 31 | 253.4 | 29.4 | 20.21 | 2.86 | 11.39 | 1.32 |
| 2019 | 3,753 | 999 | 89 | 999 | 35 | 266.2 | 23.7 | 21.02 | 2.32 | 11.36 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 3,616 | 910 | 71 | 910 | 24 | 251.7 | 19.6 | 20.11 | 1.93 | 10.50 | 0.82 |
| 2021 | 3,882 | 928 | | 928 | 27 | 239.1 | | 19.29 | | 10.81 | |
| 2022 | 3,565 | 983 | | 983 | 29 | 275.7 | | 21.61 | | 11.37 | |
| 2023 | 3,207 | 1,028 | | 1,028 | 16 | 320.5 | | 24.27 | | 11.58 | |
| 2024 | 3,401 | 1,087 | | 1,087 | | 319.6 | | 24.22 | | 11.94 | |
| 2025 | | | | (1,100) | | | | | | | |
| year | live births |
abortions, reported
(official) |
abortions, occurrences, estimated (AWR) |
miscarriages |
abortion ratio | abortion % |
abortion rate |
|---|
| all in area | residents, in and out of area |
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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