Historical abortion statistics, Nova Scotia (Canada)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Nova Scotia (Canada)

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 24 June 2023

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
1962	19,625
1963	19,146
1964	18,732
1965	17,776
1966	15,220				212
1967	14,312				203
1968	13,774				151
1969	13,618				174
1970	14,159		261		163		18.4		1.81
1971	14,250		643		139		45.1		4.32		3.96
1972	13,536		837		124		61.8		5.82		5.06
1973	13,289		932		119		70.1		6.55		5.47
1974	12,941		1,062		1,395		82.1		7.58		6.10
1975	13,123		1,017		1,269		77.5		7.19		5.70
1976	12,820		1,247		1,187		97.3		8.86		6.79
1977	12,374		1,304		1,064		105.4		9.53		6.96
1978	12,548		1,454		1,142		115.9		10.38		7.61
1979	12,406		1,511		1,011		121.8		10.86		7.75
1980	12,369		1,662		1,015		134.4		11.85		8.37
1981	12,079		1,689		975		139.8		12.27		8.39
1982	12,325		1,691		883		137.2		12.06		8.32
1983	12,401		1,678		904		135.3		11.92		8.13
1984	12,378		1,703		934		137.6		12.09		8.12
1985	12,450		1,698		907		136.4		12.00		7.98
1986	12,358		1,704		819		137.9		12.12		7.94
1987	12,110		1,690		814		139.6		12.25		7.82
1988	12,182		1,730		780		142.0		12.44		7.98
1989	12,533		2,030		788		162.0		13.94		9.29
1990	12,870		1,920		719		149.2		12.98		8.75
1991	12,016				679
1992	11,874		2,157		632		181.7		15.37		9.88
1993	11,568		2,148		494		185.7		15.66		9.90
1994	11,099	2,389	2,051		502	215.2	184.8	17.71	15.60	11.09	9.52
1995	10,726	2,268	2,043		366	211.4	190.5	17.45	16.00	10.59	9.54
1996	10,573	2,264	2,039		301	214.1	192.8	17.64	16.17	10.62	9.57
1997	9,952	2,213	2,045		237	222.4	205.5	18.19	17.05	10.48	9.68
1998	9,595	2,240	2,053		194	233.5	214.0	18.93	17.63	10.71	9.82
1999	9,575	2,068	1,917		153	216.0	200.2	17.76	16.68	9.98	9.25
2000	9,116	2,089	1,989	2,089	121	229.2	218.2	18.64	17.91	10.19	9.70
2001	8,909	2,105	1,890	2,105	121	236.3	212.1	19.11	17.50	10.41	9.35
2002	8,663	1,996	1,825	1,996	146	230.4	210.7	18.73	17.40	9.96	9.10
2003	8,650	2,064	1,925	2,064	109	238.6	222.5	19.26	18.20	10.36	9.66
2004	8,734	1,936	1,905	1,936	114	221.7	218.1	18.14	17.91	9.79	9.64
2005	8,557	1,944	1,897	1,944	114	227.2	221.7	18.51	18.15	9.95	9.71
2006	8,485	2,082	2,003	2,082	76	245.4	236.1	19.70	19.10	10.80	10.39
2007	8,868	2,122	2,042	2,122	94	239.3	230.3	19.31	18.72	11.22	10.80
2008	9,188	2,126	2,042	2,126	81	231.4	222.2	18.79	18.18	11.45	11.00
2009	8,989	2,119	2,038	2,119	66	235.7	226.7	19.08	18.48	11.57	11.13
2010	8,871	2,125	2,051	2,125	67	239.5	231.2	19.33	18.78	11.75	11.34
2011	8,862	2,157	2,077	2,157	69	243.4	234.4	19.58	18.99	12.03	11.59
2012	8,774	2,119	2,033	2,119	81	241.5	231.7	19.45	18.81	11.97	11.48
2013	8,439	2,077	1,965	2,077	56	246.1	232.8	19.75	18.89	11.93	11.29
2014	8,616	2,061	1,951	2,061	87	239.2	226.4	19.30	18.46	12.00	11.36
2015	8,204	1,924	1,854	1,924	65	234.5	226.0	19.00	18.43	11.35	10.93
2016	8,309	1,908	1,889	1,908	55	229.6	227.3	18.67	18.52	11.24	11.13
2017	8,238	1,791	1,799	1,791	74	217.4	218.4	17.86	17.92	10.49	10.54
2018	7,949	1,450	1,444	1,450	73	182.4	181.7	15.43	15.37	8.43	8.40
2019	8,099	1,268	1,265	1,268	65	156.6	156.2	13.54	13.51	7.25	7.24
2020	7,631	1,893	1,200	1,893	65	248.1	157.3	19.88	13.59	10.68	6.77
2021	6,967	2,007		2,007	71	288.1		22.36		11.19
2022
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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