Historical abortion statistics, Kochi (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Kochi (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	19,534		1,848
1900	18,364		1,760
1901	18,892		1,907
1902	19,647		1,766
1903	18,211		1,619
1904	17,908		1,578
1905	18,362		1,492
1906	16,583		1,548
1907	19,857		1,703
1908	20,615		1,770
1909	20,178		1,719
1910	20,023		1,699
1911	21,046		1,746
1912	19,994		1,559
1913	20,570		1,731
1914	20,729		1,770
1915	20,632		1,739
1916	20,629		1,671
1917	20,791		1,664
1918	21,049		1,628
1919	19,473		1,400
1920	22,935		1,601
1921	21,765		1,573
1922	21,554		1,415
1923	23,338		1,490
1924	22,204		1,426
1925	22,715		1,385
1926	22,905		1,387
1927	22,077		1,266
1928	22,841		1,289
1929	22,000		1,235
1930	21,461		1,235
1931	21,153		1,137
1932	21,717		1,175
1933	21,468		1,109
1934	19,370		983
1935	20,867		1,092
1936	18,473		1,002
1937	19,896		942
1938	16,876		786
1939	16,917		779
1940	17,936		744
1941	20,162		795
1942	19,695		696
1943	18,703		695
1944
1945
1946
1947	28,656		1,077
1948	27,222		1,293
1949	26,375		1,628
1950	23,037		1,849
1951	20,006		1,858
1952	18,651		1,589
1953	17,268		1,454
1954	15,857		1,408
1955	16,029	10,055	1,354	627.3	38.55	45.8
1956	14,311		1,366
1957	13,994		1,232
1958	14,121		1,367
1959	13,910		1,379
1960	12,663	11,812	1,304	932.8	48.26	54.2
1961	12,343		1,307
1962	11,773		1,223
1963	12,149		1,220
1964	11,719		1,154
1965	12,028	10,198	1,159	847.9	45.88	46.6
1966	7,710		991
1967	12,172		1,053
1968	11,295		945
1969	11,536		909
1970	11,842	7,282	790	614.9	38.08	34.1
1971	12,194		806
1972	12,618		789
1973	12,713		708
1974	12,403		720
1975	11,773	6,507	718	552.7	35.60	31.2
1976	11,765		649
1977	10,987		778
1978	10,870		600
1979	10,687		519
1980	9,378	4,762	515	507.8	33.68	23.6
1981	10,179		593
1982	9,804		537
1983	9,863		514
1984	9,687		516
1985	9,350	4,878	514	521.7	34.28	24.9
1986	8,936		512
1987	8,405		463
1988	8,146		444
1989	7,618		394
1990	7,182	4,125	363	574.4	36.48	21.3
1991	7,371	3,958	364	537.0	34.94
1992	7,147	3,938	363	551.0	35.53
1993	7,363	3,744	327	508.5	33.71
1994	7,305	3,719	374	509.1	33.74
1995	6,939	3,345	323	482.1	32.53	18.8
1996	7,185	3,305	299	460.0	31.51
1997	6,807	3,228	278	474.2	32.17
1998	6,761	3,126	301	462.4	31.62
1999	6,649	3,139	272	472.1	32.07
2000	6,811	3,025	284	444.1	30.75	18.1
2001	6,736	3,101	252	460.4	31.52	18.6
2002	6,513	2,803	259	430.4	30.09	17.1
2003	6,244	2,705	247	433.2	30.23	16.7
2004	6,084	2,534	250	416.5	29.40	15.7
2005	5,916	2,326	225	393.2	28.22	14.7
2006	6,015	2,080	178	345.8	25.69	13.5
2007	5,717	1,868	220	326.7	24.63	12.5
2008	5,788	1,753	197	302.9	23.25	11.9
2009	5,415	1,602	180	295.8	22.83	11.0
2010	5,518	1,486	166	269.3	21.22	10.6
2011	5,244	1,443	175	275.2	21.58	10.5
2012	5,266	1,260	153	239.3	19.31	9.2
2013	5,266	1,303	124	247.4	19.84	9.6
2014	5,015	1,213	149	241.9	19.48	9.2
2015	5,052	1,131	111	223.9	18.29	8.8
2016	4,779	1,073	106	224.5	18.34	8.4
2017	4,837	945	101	195.4	16.34	7.6
2018	4,559	887	105	194.6	16.29	7.3
2019	4,270	812	83	190.2	15.98	6.8
2020	4,082	756	76	185.2	15.63	6.5
2021	4,090	694	83	169.7	14.51	6.1
2022	3,721	616	73	165.5	14.20	5.5
2023	3,380	625	84	184.9	15.61
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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