Historical abortion statistics, Aomori (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Aomori (Japan)

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 22 May 2025

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

Abortions, all to residents include all abortions obtained by prefecture residents.
Fetal deaths includes stillbirths.
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 15-49.

year	live births	abortions	fetal deaths	abortion ratio	abortion %	abortion rate
year	live births	all to residents	fetal deaths	all to residents	all to residents	all to residents
1899	23,872		1,705
1900	23,589		1,673
1901	25,409		1,937
1902	25,657		1,849
1903	25,641		1,937
1904	24,717		1,824
1905	25,312		1,789
1906	24,615		1,751
1907	28,253		1,858
1908	27,969		1,941
1909	29,860		2,082
1910	29,726		1,964
1911	31,309		2,088
1912	29,795		1,921
1913	31,832		2,066
1914	29,055		1,860
1915	32,323		2,013
1916	31,967		1,965
1917	33,242		1,977
1918	31,352		1,839
1919	29,783		1,700
1920	37,071		2,098
1921	35,170		2,014
1922	33,936		1,852
1923	36,184		1,918
1924	35,321		1,790
1925	36,778		1,852
1926	36,157		1,740
1927	37,225		1,715
1928	38,950		1,761
1929	36,291		1,717
1930	38,483		1,704
1931	37,756		1,742
1932	40,101		1,842
1933	39,367		1,841
1934	38,542		1,656
1935	41,046		1,716
1936	37,949		1,626
1937	41,898		1,702
1938	36,559		1,459
1939	32,191		1,369
1940	36,292		1,307
1941	37,409		1,441
1942	38,121		1,365
1943	38,566		1,354
1944
1945
1946
1947	48,997		1,801
1948	46,805		2,101
1949	51,475		2,891
1950	46,137		3,885
1951	41,780		3,884
1952	40,981		3,699
1953	38,670		3,476
1954	36,484		3,148
1955	35,219	24,778	3,216	703.5	41.30	70.8
1956	33,066		3,037
1957	31,368		3,167
1958	32,361		3,329
1959	31,645		3,154
1960	29,881	19,268	3,367	644.8	39.20	52.0
1961	29,216		3,230
1962	28,247		3,064
1963	27,714		2,885
1964	27,776		2,816
1965	28,204	14,421	2,561	511.3	33.83	37.2
1966	21,594		2,462
1967	28,407		2,458
1968	27,203		2,295
1969	26,714		2,229
1970	26,369	10,903	2,090	413.5	29.25	27.1
1971	26,014		1,925
1972	25,926		1,944
1973	25,985		1,764
1974	25,090		1,597
1975	24,031	8,448	1,583	351.5	26.01	20.9
1976	23,627		1,502
1977	23,104		1,422
1978	22,443		1,291
1979	22,337		1,243
1980	21,761	6,876	1,122	316.0	24.01	17.0
1981	20,750		1,190
1982	20,372		1,186
1983	20,449		1,012
1984	20,062		1,001
1985	19,095	6,847	1,010	358.6	26.39	17.9
1986	18,353		951
1987	17,324		855
1988	16,373		777
1989	15,544		748
1990	14,635	5,250	645	358.7	26.40	14.2
1991	15,030	4,941	565	328.7	24.74
1992	14,486	4,876	610	336.6	25.18
1993	14,357	4,504	562	313.7	23.88
1994	14,767	3,713	542	251.4	20.09
1995	13,972	3,938	527	281.8	21.99	11.2
1996	13,955	4,864	480	348.5	25.85
1997	13,606	4,434	494	325.9	24.58
1998	13,594	4,678	498	344.1	25.60
1999	13,146	4,537	467	345.1	25.66
2000	12,920	4,429	471	342.8	25.53	13.4
2001	12,889	4,408	460	342.0	25.48	13.6
2002	12,434	3,866	426	310.9	23.72	12.1
2003	11,723	3,569	415	304.4	23.34	11.3
2004	11,554	3,562	369	308.3	23.56	11.5
2005	10,524	3,310	367	314.5	23.93	11.0
2006	10,556	3,073	382	291.1	22.55	10.5
2007	10,162	2,924	311	287.7	22.34	10.2
2008	10,187	2,712	290	266.2	21.02	9.6
2009	9,523	2,524	290	265.0	20.95	9.2
2010	9,711	2,342	283	241.2	19.43	8.8
2011	9,531	2,187	256	229.5	18.66	8.4
2012	9,168	2,103	260	229.4	18.66	8.2
2013	9,126	1,927	239	211.2	17.43	7.7
2014	8,853	1,772	250	200.2	16.68	7.3
2015	8,621	1,757	216	203.8	16.93	7.4
2016	8,626	1,607	183	186.3	15.70	6.9
2017	8,035	1,618	173	201.4	16.76	7.1
2018	7,803	1,531	191	196.2	16.40	6.9
2019	7,170	1,439	168	200.7	16.72	6.7
2020	6,837	1,298	145	189.8	15.96	6.3
2021	6,513	1,187	150	182.3	15.42	5.8
2022	5,985	1,113	158	186.0	15.68	5.6
2023	5,696	1,075	141	188.7	15.88
2024
year	live births	abortions	fetal deaths	abortion ratio	abortion %	abortion rate
year	live births	all to residents	fetal deaths	all to residents	all to residents	all to residents

Notes:

Abortion data may be significantly incomplete.

Sources:

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2000, "Trends in vital statistics by prefecture over the past 100 years" (in Japanese), MHLW, on line [https://www.mhlw.go.jp/www1/toukei/kjd100_8/index.html#data]
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2024, "Table 56: Number and rate of induced abortions by year (per 1,000 women aged 15-49) by prefecture" (in Japanese), Tottori Prefecture, on line [https://www.pref.tottori.lg.jp/secure/1350626/%25E4%25BB%25A4%25E5%2592%258C%25EF%25BC%2594%25EF%25BC%258856%25E8%25A1%25A8%25EF%25BC%2589%25E5%25B9%25B4%25E6%25AC%25A1%25E5%2588%25A5%25E4%25BA%25BA%25E5%25B7%25A5%25E5%25A6%258A%25E5%25A8%25A0%25E4%25B8%25AD%25E7%25B5%25B6%25E4%25BB%25B6%25E6%2595%25B0%25E3%2580%2581%25E7%258E%2587%25EF%25BC%258815%25EF%25BD%259E49%25E6%25AD%25B3%25E5%25A5%25B3%25E5%25AD%2590%25E4%25BA%25BA%25E5%258F%25A3%25E5%258D%2583%25E5%25AF%25BE%25EF%25BC%2589%25EF%25BC%2588%25E9%2583%25BD%25E9%2581%2593%25E5%25BA%259C%25E7%259C%258C%25E5%2588%25A5%25EF%25BC%2589.xls].
National Statistics Center, 2024, "Vital statistics of Japan, Volume 1: Natality Table 4.3 Trends in live births by each prefecture: Japan," e-Stat, on line [https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/stat-search/].
National Statistics Center, 2025, "Vital statistics, stillbirths" (in Japanese), e-Stat, on line [https://www.e-stat.go.jp/dbview?sid=0003411801].
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© 2025 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 22 May 2025.
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