Historical abortion statistics, Hokkaido (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Hokkaido (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	29,734		2,602
1900	34,426		3,054
1901	36,856		3,568
1902	38,930		3,900
1903	41,279		3,938
1904	42,800		3,946
1905	44,881		4,024
1906	45,896		4,435
1907	53,449		4,823
1908	56,973		5,217
1909	61,245		5,289
1910	65,681		5,226
1911	68,060		5,189
1912	68,575		5,089
1913	70,328		5,034
1914	70,831		5,079
1915	76,155		5,237
1916	80,815		5,399
1917	82,966		5,759
1918	87,593		6,291
1919	83,092		5,756
1920	97,496		6,359
1921	95,208		5,906
1922	97,024		5,687
1923	97,222		5,352
1924	97,852		5,209
1925	98,182		4,899
1926	98,669		4,864
1927	99,544		4,783
1928	103,510		4,822
1929	100,005		4,864
1930	105,205		4,862
1931	103,478		4,738
1932	107,303		4,780
1933	103,074		4,533
1934	104,782		4,699
1935	109,941		4,720
1936	103,311		4,504
1937	107,609		4,653
1938	105,309		4,442
1939	98,146		4,353
1940	107,897		4,503
1941	114,429		4,644
1942	112,690		4,416
1943	118,626		4,253
1944
1945
1946
1947	141,577		6,079
1948	153,210		6,934
1949	164,640		9,933
1950	147,055		11,449
1951	136,014		12,324
1952	129,840		12,527
1953	119,212		11,863
1954	110,354		11,081
1955	103,678	83,413	10,827	804.5	44.58	70.1
1956	98,863		10,969
1957	93,181		10,890
1958	94,427		11,752
1959	95,324		11,533
1960	93,852	77,609	11,866	826.9	45.26	58.5
1961	92,401		12,127
1962	91,949		11,743
1963	93,326		12,028
1964	92,800		11,513
1965	96,666	60,913	11,167	630.1	38.66	41.6
1966	74,230		10,668
1967	99,012		10,548
1968	93,410		10,447
1969	92,477		10,321
1970	91,867	55,116	9,914	600.0	37.50	36.4
1971	93,568		9,344
1972	95,200		8,887
1973	95,104		8,090
1974	94,356		7,731
1975	89,631	50,419	7,272	562.5	36.00	33.5
1976	86,335		7,324
1977	83,020		6,762
1978	82,012		6,405
1979	78,956		6,160
1980	75,526	50,203	5,790	664.7	39.93	33.1
1981	72,380		5,731
1982	72,828		5,459
1983	72,017		5,080
1984	70,210		5,233
1985	66,413	44,483	4,988	669.8	40.11	29.5
1986	63,947		4,690
1987	61,219		4,180
1988	59,211		3,977
1989	55,251		3,679
1990	54,428	33,931	3,498	623.4	38.40	22.8
1991	53,909	32,032	3,111	594.2	37.27
1992	53,121	29,512	2,856	555.6	35.71
1993	50,925	27,877	2,657	547.4	35.38
1994	52,522	25,107	2,464	478.0	32.34
1995	49,950	24,184	2,139	484.2	32.62	16.9
1996	49,784	23,082	2,079	463.6	31.68
1997	48,912	23,168	2,111	473.7	32.14
1998	49,065	22,717	2,156	463.0	31.65	16.3
1999	46,680	22,757	2,053	487.5	32.77	16.6
2000	46,780	22,642	2,069	484.0	32.62	16.9
2001	46,236	22,665	2,047	490.2	32.90	17.3
2002	46,101	20,834	1,913	451.9	31.13	16.2
2003	44,939	19,413	1,829	432.0	30.17	15.3
2004	44,020	17,748	1,780	403.2	28.73	14.3
2005	41,420	16,622	1,664	401.3	28.64	13.5
2006	42,204	15,022	1,552	355.9	26.25	12.4
2007	41,550	13,607	1,481	327.5	24.67	11.4
2008	41,074	12,785	1,412	311.3	23.74	10.9
2009	40,165	11,510	1,361	286.6	22.27	9.9
2010	40,158	10,645	1,260	265.1	20.95	9.3
2011	39,292	10,236	1,309	260.5	20.67	9.1
2012	38,686	9,725	1,177	251.4	20.09	8.8
2013	38,190	9,047	1,134	236.9	19.15	8.3
2014	37,058	8,800	1,101	237.5	19.19	8.2
2015	36,696	8,483	1,058	231.2	18.78	8.1
2016	35,129	7,987	901	227.4	18.52	7.6
2017	34,058	7,234	991	212.4	17.52	7.0
2018	32,642	7,088	881	217.1	17.84	7.0
2019	31,020	6,809	852	219.5	18.00	6.9
2020	29,523	5,759	728	195.1	16.32	6.0
2021	28,762	5,027	646	174.8	14.88	5.3
2022	26,407	5,195	586	196.7	16.44	5.6
2023	24,430	5,024	635	205.6	17.06
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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