Historical abortion statistics, Mie (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Mie (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	30,530		2,994
1900	30,260		3,146
1901	34,106		3,316
1902	32,970		3,530
1903	32,720		3,335
1904	31,161		3,173
1905	31,219		2,913
1906	30,230		3,224
1907	34,382		3,404
1908	35,278		3,602
1909	36,555		3,548
1910	36,523		3,389
1911	36,590		3,243
1912	36,471		2,973
1913	37,417		2,993
1914	36,484		2,900
1915	37,201		2,875
1916	36,146		2,683
1917	35,339		2,733
1918	35,194		2,884
1919	33,511		2,403
1920	39,297		2,568
1921	37,699		2,455
1922	37,714		2,354
1923	39,614		2,419
1924	37,296		2,131
1925	39,350		2,167
1926	40,082		2,048
1927	37,720		1,953
1928	39,625		2,033
1929	39,009		1,965
1930	38,797		1,900
1931	36,827		1,909
1932	39,344		1,934
1933	37,730		1,862
1934	36,409		1,809
1935	37,796		1,677
1936	36,744		1,797
1937	37,377		1,634
1938	32,627		1,418
1939	30,441		1,333
1940	35,163		1,515
1941	35,980		1,506
1942	34,941		1,415
1943	35,049		1,336
1944
1945
1946
1947	46,234		1,999
1948	47,211		2,326
1949	43,379		3,199
1950	37,240		3,427
1951	32,998		3,280
1952	30,510		2,942
1953	28,783		2,918
1954	26,864		2,842
1955	25,456	19,046	2,733	748.2	42.80	48.8
1956	25,690		2,518
1957	23,541		2,448
1958	25,282		2,592
1959	24,733		2,594
1960	24,113	22,374	2,594	927.9	48.13	55.9
1961	24,017		2,578
1962	24,718		2,483
1963	24,958		2,427
1964	25,484		2,423
1965	27,057	21,343	2,145	788.8	44.10	50.1
1966	17,327		1,949
1967	27,263		1,968
1968	26,197		1,960
1969	25,838		1,840
1970	26,154	13,111	1,912	501.3	33.39	30.5
1971	27,295		1,862
1972	28,003		1,799
1973	28,350		1,633
1974	27,423		1,519
1975	25,862	12,599	1,349	487.2	32.76	29.4
1976	24,784		1,395
1977	23,756		1,280
1978	22,931		1,063
1979	21,786		1,011
1980	21,446	11,844	1,007	552.3	35.58	27.8
1981	20,328		1,100
1982	20,464		924
1983	21,033		893
1984	20,806		859
1985	19,745	9,949	841	503.9	33.51	23.5
1986	19,556		817
1987	19,150		809
1988	18,932		728
1989	18,182		718
1990	17,917	7,948	717	443.6	30.73	17.9
1991	17,514	7,274	655	415.3	29.34
1992	17,686	6,614	649	374.0	27.22
1993	17,368	6,303	570	362.9	26.63
1994	18,144	5,785	573	318.8	24.18
1995	17,500	5,463	509	312.2	23.79	12.5
1996	17,780	5,286	553	297.3	22.92
1997	17,660	5,318	519	301.1	23.14
1998	17,829	4,971	471	278.8	21.80
1999	17,375	5,033	501	289.7	22.46
2000	17,726	5,198	496	293.2	22.67	12.9
2001	17,094	5,332	501	311.9	23.78	12.9
2002	17,190	5,075	504	295.2	22.79	12.5
2003	16,497	5,130	441	311.0	23.72	12.7
2004	16,287	4,723	395	290.0	22.48	11.7
2005	15,345	4,552	417	296.6	22.88	11.4
2006	15,816	4,294	426	271.5	21.35	10.9
2007	15,716	3,957	363	251.8	20.11	10.1
2008	15,633	4,421	349	282.8	22.05	11.3
2009	15,614	3,794	339	243.0	19.55	9.8
2010	15,262	3,451	335	226.1	18.44	9.2
2011	15,080	2,874	333	190.6	16.01	7.7
2012	14,729	2,692	319	182.8	15.45	7.3
2013	14,514	2,558	304	176.2	14.98	7.0
2014	13,727	2,339	308	170.4	14.56	6.5
2015	13,950	2,288	284	164.0	14.09	6.5
2016	13,376	2,190	276	163.7	14.07	6.2
2017	12,663	1,987	268	156.9	13.56	5.7
2018	12,582	1,879	251	149.3	12.99	5.5
2019	11,690	1,820	238	155.7	13.47	5.4
2020	11,141	1,658	211	148.8	12.95	5.2
2021	10,980	1,361	216	124.0	11.03	4.2
2022	10,489	1,262	184	120.3	10.74	4.0
2023	9,524	1,243	185	130.5	11.54
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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