Historical abortion statistics, Northwest Territories (Canada)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Northwest Territories (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	1,139
1963	1,145
1964	1,178
1965	1,270
1966	1,189
1967	1,130
1968	1,250
1969	1,260
1970	1,337
1971	1,328
1972	(1,220)		44				36.1		3.48		5.3
1973	(1,210)		51				42.1		4.04		5.7
1974	1,042		75		18		72.0		6.71		8.3
1975	1,175		95		20		80.9		7.48		9.8
1976	1,183		90		8		76.1		7.07		8.9
1977	1,192		102		18		85.6		7.88		9.9
1978	1,204		134		14		111.3		10.01		12.5
1979	1,283		141		12		109.9		9.90		12.8
1980	1,302		126		13		96.8		8.82		11.2
1981	1,302		179		10		137.5		12.09		15.3
1982	1,362		218		17		160.1		13.80		17.8
1983	1,491		205		11		137.5		12.09		16.1
1984	1,444		226		15		156.5		13.53		17.2
1985	1,437		254		12		176.8		15.02		18.6
1986	1,507		248		22		164.6		14.13		17.9
1987	1,523		248		14		162.8		14.00		17.6
1988	1,555		279		19		179.4		15.21		19.5
1989	1,479		261		27		176.5		15.00		17.8
1990	1,584		338		15		213.4		17.59		22.3
1991	1,634				17
1992	1,554		324		11		0.0		0.00		20.7
1993	1,559		294		9		0.0		0.00		18.5
1994	1,580	239	274		142	151.3	119.9	13.14	10.70	14.7	16.8
1995	1,613	241	284		96	149.4	120.8	13.00	10.78	14.6	17.2
1996	1,562	253	297		85	162.0	126.8	13.94	11.25	15.3	18.0
1997	1,468	246	317		81	167.6	123.2	14.35	10.97	15.0	19.3
1998	1,348	250	292		62	185.5	125.1	15.64	11.12	15.4	18.0
1999	1,396	256	238		70	183.4	128.1	15.50	11.35	25.1	23.4
2000	673	278	281	278	41	413.1	139.0	29.23	12.20	27.7	28.0
2001	613	261	286	261	30	425.8	130.4	29.86	11.54	25.8	28.3
2002	635	238	245	238	38	374.8	118.9	27.26	10.63	23.3	23.9
2003	701	266	255	266	37	379.5	132.8	27.51	11.72	25.5	24.4
2004	698	270	261	270	42	386.8	134.7	27.89	11.87	25.6	24.7
2005	712			(270)	4					(25.7)
2006	687	271	257	271	9	394.5	135.1	28.29	11.90	26.1	24.8
2007	725	329	293	329	7	453.8	163.9	31.21	14.08	31.7	28.2
2008	721	171	156	171	5	237.2	85.2	19.17	7.85	16.5	15.1
2009	711	57	60	57	9	80.2	28.4	7.42	2.76	5.6	5.9
2010	700	40	38	40	4	57.1	19.9	5.41	1.95	3.9	3.7
2011	690	45	50	45	4	65.2	22.4	6.12	2.19	4.4	4.9
2012	688	35	39	35	8	50.9	56.7	4.84	5.36	3.4	3.8
2013	669	211	176	211	8	315.4	263.1	23.98	20.83	20.7	17.3
2014	665	255	208	255	6	383.5	312.8	27.72	23.83	25.4	20.7
2015	683	266	217	266	7	389.5	317.7	28.03	24.11	26.7	21.8
2016	642	277	215	277	9	431.5	334.9	30.14	25.09	28.0	21.7
2017	616	226	187	226	1	366.9	303.6	26.84	23.29	22.9	19.0
2018	625	252	205	252	6	403.2	328.0	28.73	24.70	25.7	20.9
2019	583	233	170	233	8	399.7	291.6	28.55	22.58	23.8	17.3
2020	569	205	170	205	7	360.3	298.8	26.49	23.00	20.8	17.3
2021	548	221		221	10	403.3		28.74		22.4
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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