Historical abortion statistics, Iwate (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Iwate (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	24,537		2,458
1900	23,941		2,506
1901	26,647		2,918
1902	26,132		2,952
1903	24,788		2,846
1904	22,999		2,627
1905	24,690		2,669
1906	21,940		2,657
1907	25,934		2,992
1908	27,843		3,162
1909	29,089		3,269
1910	28,597		3,071
1911	30,480		3,144
1912	29,211		2,942
1913	29,537		3,169
1914	28,669		2,955
1915	31,141		3,093
1916	32,028		3,111
1917	32,380		3,135
1918	31,688		3,291
1919	30,580		2,887
1920	37,492		3,363
1921	35,281		3,051
1922	34,903		2,889
1923	36,810		2,922
1924	35,631		2,935
1925	37,017		2,710
1926	38,088		2,742
1927	37,489		2,618
1928	38,148		2,664
1929	37,804		2,578
1930	38,415		2,597
1931	37,462		2,468
1932	40,565		2,569
1933	38,157		2,316
1934	39,586		2,287
1935	40,429		2,190
1936	40,394		2,178
1937	40,860		2,243
1938	38,628		2,034
1939	35,503		1,798
1940	39,993		1,936
1941	39,771		1,783
1942	38,938		1,743
1943	40,505		1,744
1944
1945
1946
1947	46,083		2,361
1948	47,135		2,627
1949	49,495		3,438
1950	45,664		4,278
1951	41,662		4,552
1952	41,739		4,548
1953	38,158		4,028
1954	36,583		3,771
1955	34,704	19,839	3,682	571.7	36.37	54.6
1956	32,637		3,515
1957	29,522		3,522
1958	31,413		3,586
1959	29,180		3,363
1960	27,827	20,881	3,229	750.4	42.87	55.2
1961	26,838		3,151
1962	26,016		3,043
1963	25,754		2,861
1964	25,261		2,654
1965	24,629	17,137	2,501	695.8	41.03	44.6
1966	18,989		2,254
1967	24,969		2,161
1968	23,346		2,033
1969	22,916		1,972
1970	22,077	13,609	1,891	616.4	38.14	35.7
1971	21,600		1,696
1972	22,306		1,549
1973	22,884		1,501
1974	22,597		1,344
1975	22,182	10,756	1,308	484.9	32.66	29.0
1976	21,713		1,356
1977	20,793		1,228
1978	20,623		1,139
1979	20,059		1,194
1980	19,638	11,073	1,101	563.9	36.06	30.8
1981	18,600		1,093
1982	18,581		1,036
1983	18,582		977
1984	18,043		966
1985	17,232	9,745	918	565.5	36.12	28.2
1986	16,536		871
1987	15,567		869
1988	15,410		790
1989	14,548		765
1990	14,254	7,220	694	506.5	33.62	21.9
1991	14,270	6,802	666	476.7	32.28
1992	13,908	6,607	640	475.1	32.21
1993	13,496	6,137	608	454.7	31.26
1994	13,672	5,870	592	429.3	30.04
1995	13,021	5,546	513	425.9	29.87	17.3
1996	12,845	5,537	504	431.1	30.12
1997	12,423	5,306	557	427.1	29.93
1998	12,778	5,318	456	416.2	29.39
1999	12,420	5,279	477	425.0	29.83
2000	12,410	5,295	480	426.7	29.91	17.8
2001	12,272	5,173	475	421.5	29.65	17.5
2002	11,862	4,903	497	413.3	29.25	16.9
2003	11,376	4,669	430	410.4	29.10	16.4
2004	11,167	4,245	441	380.1	27.54	15.2
2005	10,545	3,796	361	360.0	26.47	13.8
2006	10,556	3,650	338	345.8	25.69	13.5
2007	10,344	3,272	332	316.3	24.03	12.2
2008	10,223	3,023	279	295.7	22.82	11.5
2009	9,904	2,775	265	280.2	21.89	10.7
2010	9,745	2,435	291	249.9	19.99	9.8
2011	9,310	2,342	256	251.6	20.10	9.6
2012	9,276	2,205	263	237.7	19.21	9.2
2013	9,231	2,092	256	226.6	18.48	8.9
2014	8,803	1,990	213	226.1	18.44	8.6
2015	8,814	1,786	216	202.6	16.85	7.9
2016	8,342	1,677	185	201.0	16.74	7.4
2017	8,175	1,556	167	190.3	15.99	7.0
2018	7,615	1,511	172	198.4	16.56	7.0
2019	6,974	1,417	155	203.2	16.89	6.7
2020	6,718	1,283	150	191.0	16.04	6.3
2021	6,472	1,081	129	167.0	14.31	5.4
2022	5,788	998	112	172.4	14.71	5.1
2023	5,432	959	124	176.5	15.01
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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Last modified 22 May 2025.
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