Historical abortion statistics, Ishikawa (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Ishikawa (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	23,666		1,981
1900	25,377		2,119
1901	25,567		2,350
1902	27,064		2,528
1903	26,593		2,452
1904	25,562		2,453
1905	25,101		2,213
1906	24,459		2,431
1907	28,335		2,515
1908	27,709		2,533
1909	28,511		2,461
1910	28,717		2,331
1911	28,948		2,280
1912	28,515		2,142
1913	28,374		2,203
1914	29,082		2,213
1915	28,699		2,002
1916	27,371		2,017
1917	27,022		1,973
1918	25,926		1,904
1919	25,219		1,626
1920	28,673		1,844
1921	28,550		1,825
1922	25,713		1,615
1923	25,376		1,611
1924	26,375		1,584
1925	26,851		1,565
1926	26,262		1,506
1927	25,468		1,378
1928	25,863		1,351
1929	24,920		1,361
1930	24,786		1,296
1931	25,115		1,219
1932	25,540		1,246
1933	25,520		1,286
1934	23,133		1,240
1935	23,958		1,170
1936	24,386		1,214
1937	22,862		1,151
1938	19,664		1,001
1939	19,398		881
1940	21,279		949
1941	23,463		950
1942	24,983		1,019
1943	24,032		843
1944
1945
1946
1947	37,289		1,428
1948	34,339		1,479
1949	32,131		2,009
1950	26,192		2,012
1951	22,108		1,836
1952	20,566		1,698
1953	19,207		1,692
1954	18,864		1,727
1955	18,021	10,867	1,564	603.0	37.62	43.6
1956	16,626		1,565
1957	16,315		1,635
1958	17,384		1,579
1959	16,012		1,433
1960	15,990	7,113	1,460	444.8	30.79	27.1
1961	15,514		1,533
1962	15,674		1,528
1963	15,800		1,397
1964	16,327		1,270
1965	16,605	6,204	1,165	373.6	27.20	22.3
1966	12,642		1,147
1967	18,006		1,152
1968	17,006		1,138
1969	17,185		1,106
1970	18,125	6,988	1,078	385.5	27.83	24.9
1971	19,067		1,077
1972	19,840		1,048
1973	20,312		981
1974	19,723		993
1975	18,817	7,173	901	381.2	27.60	25.5
1976	18,062		842
1977	17,009		901
1978	16,462		786
1979	15,863		737
1980	15,138	6,092	702	402.4	28.70	21.6
1981	14,320		696
1982	14,418		685
1983	14,212		624
1984	13,965		659
1985	13,256	4,847	557	365.6	26.77	17.0
1986	13,031		541
1987	12,318		604
1988	12,317		461
1989	11,684		456
1990	11,535	4,138	507	358.7	26.40	14.5
1991	11,284	3,842	445	340.5	25.40
1992	11,401	3,534	408	310.0	23.66
1993	11,002	3,178	347	288.9	22.41
1994	11,935	3,050	345	255.6	20.35
1995	11,093	2,831	311	255.2	20.33	9.7
1996	11,484	2,913	353	253.7	20.23
1997	11,318	2,893	313	255.6	20.36
1998	11,642	2,996	280	257.3	20.47
1999	11,290	3,014	301	267.0	21.07
2000	11,467	3,054	313	266.3	21.03	11.5
2001	11,342	3,051	288	269.0	21.20	11.6
2002	10,886	2,974	305	273.2	21.46	11.5
2003	10,906	2,911	291	266.9	21.07	11.4
2004	10,528	2,671	292	253.7	20.24	10.6
2005	10,049	2,558	259	254.6	20.29	10.2
2006	10,235	2,359	245	230.5	18.73	9.6
2007	10,294	2,282	237	221.7	18.15	9.3
2008	10,199	2,139	232	209.7	17.34	8.8
2009	9,849	2,053	207	208.4	17.25	8.5
2010	9,602	1,649	213	171.7	14.66	7.0
2011	9,555	1,826	221	191.1	16.04	7.7
2012	9,544	1,696	189	177.7	15.09	7.2
2013	9,449	1,669	169	176.6	15.01	7.2
2014	8,961	1,567	187	174.9	14.88	6.8
2015	9,072	1,530	188	168.7	14.43	6.8
2016	8,928	1,341	159	150.2	13.06	5.9
2017	8,696	1,353	163	155.6	13.46	6.0
2018	8,359	1,295	141	154.9	13.41	5.9
2019	7,808	1,187	146	152.0	13.20	5.4
2020	7,712	1,134	131	147.0	12.82	5.4
2021	7,258	919	130	126.6	11.24	4.3
2022	7,075	900	134	127.2	11.29	4.3
2023	6,757	929	106	137.5	12.09
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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