Historical abortion statistics, Kagawa (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Kagawa (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	22,992		1,779
1900	23,323		1,855
1901	24,603		2,045
1902	24,273		2,169
1903	23,842		2,055
1904	23,466		1,901
1905	22,943		1,847
1906	23,521		2,114
1907	25,841		2,211
1908	26,370		2,308
1909	26,076		2,270
1910	26,666		2,208
1911	25,945		2,164
1912	26,725		2,101
1913	27,252		2,000
1914	26,755		1,893
1915	26,078		1,968
1916	25,863		1,797
1917	25,413		1,768
1918	24,380		1,877
1919	22,787		1,540
1920	27,554		1,625
1921	25,982		1,660
1922	25,254		1,508
1923	26,069		1,516
1924	24,526		1,459
1925	24,485		1,265
1926	26,350		1,303
1927	24,346		1,219
1928	25,788		1,274
1929	24,900		1,206
1930	24,164		1,119
1931	25,315		1,121
1932	25,791		1,227
1933	25,295		1,198
1934	22,080		1,058
1935	24,502		1,133
1936	23,022		1,020
1937	24,165		1,086
1938	19,789		873
1939	19,303		894
1940	20,771		773
1941	22,290		815
1942	22,420		781
1943	21,131		766
1944
1945
1946
1947	34,284		1,618
1948	33,659		1,939
1949	30,903		2,316
1950	24,633		2,524
1951	22,427		2,429
1952	20,455		2,223
1953	18,659		1,836
1954	16,670		1,633
1955	16,641	20,198	1,519	1,213.7	54.83	83.4
1956	16,400		1,513
1957	14,649		1,525
1958	15,737		1,598
1959	14,849		1,424
1960	13,540	19,678	1,302	1,453.3	59.24	80.6
1961	12,845		1,205
1962	13,115		1,170
1963	12,497		1,138
1964	13,445		1,113
1965	13,721	12,926	1,066	942.1	48.51	50.7
1966	9,363		884
1967	14,282		983
1968	13,840		886
1969	13,931		833
1970	14,522	9,616	810	662.2	39.84	37.6
1971	14,986		790
1972	15,767		829
1973	16,399		830
1974	16,214		767
1975	15,539	7,984	670	513.8	33.94	31.3
1976	15,218		635
1977	14,386		645
1978	13,655		539
1979	13,477		557
1980	12,993	7,038	497	541.7	35.14	28.3
1981	12,261		492
1982	12,270		527
1983	12,176		499
1984	12,068		497
1985	11,529	6,002	500	520.6	34.24	24.6
1986	11,242		455
1987	10,786		445
1988	10,482		421
1989	9,827		387
1990	9,555	5,101	353	533.9	34.80	20.7
1991	9,384	4,596	374	489.8	32.88
1992	9,406	4,433	397	471.3	32.03
1993	9,048	4,051	347	447.7	30.93
1994	9,555	3,877	292	405.8	28.86
1995	9,301	3,490	266	375.2	27.28	14.7
1996	9,311	3,349	327	359.7	26.45
1997	9,511	3,357	293	353.0	26.09
1998	9,664	3,262	268	337.5	25.24
1999	9,651	3,236	303	335.3	25.11
2000	9,808	3,311	297	337.6	25.24	15.6
2001	9,472	3,340	281	352.6	26.07	15.2
2002	9,438	3,094	259	327.8	24.69	14.4
2003	9,123	2,948	255	323.1	24.42	13.8
2004	9,068	2,686	223	296.2	22.85	12.7
2005	8,686	2,533	232	291.6	22.58	12.1
2006	8,664	2,391	244	276.0	21.63	11.8
2007	8,701	2,280	212	262.0	20.76	11.4
2008	8,600	2,009	192	233.6	18.94	10.0
2009	8,366	1,945	214	232.5	18.86	9.9
2010	8,397	1,729	206	205.9	17.07	9.1
2011	8,311	1,664	160	200.2	16.68	8.8
2012	8,161	1,649	165	202.1	16.81	8.8
2013	8,059	1,521	159	188.7	15.88	8.1
2014	7,745	1,400	169	180.8	15.31	7.5
2015	7,719	1,369	167	177.4	15.06	7.6
2016	7,510	1,300	144	173.1	14.76	7.1
2017	7,387	1,254	153	169.8	14.51	6.9
2018	6,899	1,080	133	156.5	13.54	6.1
2019	6,631	1,039	148	156.7	13.55	5.9
2020	6,179	957	124	154.9	13.41	5.6
2021	6,223	830	128	133.4	11.77	4.8
2022	5,802	745	92	128.4	11.38	4.5
2023	5,365	721	104	134.4	11.85
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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