Historical abortion statistics, Nara (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Nara (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	17,833		2,030
1900	18,451		1,998
1901	19,539		2,252
1902	19,446		2,403
1903	18,505		3,335
1904	17,592		2,121
1905	16,806		2,125
1906	17,173		2,362
1907	19,471		2,424
1908	20,422		2,462
1909	20,225		2,305
1910	20,377		2,211
1911	21,051		2,124
1912	20,193		1,953
1913	20,375		1,895
1914	20,258		1,783
1915	19,583		1,712
1916	19,983		1,758
1917	18,744		1,638
1918	18,051		1,662
1919	17,926		1,558
1920	20,494		1,679
1921	19,370		1,572
1922	19,278		1,416
1923	20,330		1,496
1924	19,070		1,310
1925	19,065		1,321
1926	19,760		1,371
1927	18,435		1,229
1928	19,531		1,358
1929	17,930		1,289
1930	18,028		1,365
1931	17,992		1,302
1932	18,871		1,320
1933	17,909		1,309
1934	17,340		1,262
1935	18,026		1,177
1936	17,260		1,109
1937	17,684		1,128
1938	14,614		919
1939	13,884		863
1940	16,521		926
1941	17,270		876
1942	16,313		774
1943	16,265		791
1944
1945
1946
1947	23,989		1,190
1948	23,339		1,277
1949	21,651		1,521
1950	18,594		1,593
1951	17,548		1,473
1952	16,330		1,349
1953	14,928		1,299
1954	13,724		1,262
1955	13,079	4,185	1,184	320.0	24.24	20.1
1956	13,006		1,153
1957	11,804		1,133
1958	12,430		1,157
1959	12,064		1,133
1960	11,994	4,888	1,140	407.5	28.95	23.2
1961	11,470		1,168
1962	12,180		1,168
1963	12,370		1,217
1964	13,657		1,172
1965	14,571	3,974	1,098	272.7	21.43	17.0
1966	10,014		959
1967	16,148		1,103
1968	16,083		1,032
1969	16,085		1,009
1970	17,516	3,662	960	209.1	17.29	13.8
1971	18,105		985
1972	19,123		921
1973	19,659		879
1974	19,523		853
1975	17,983	2,827	798	157.2	13.58	9.6
1976	17,469	2,999	803	171.7	14.65
1977	17,169	3,348	768	195.0	16.32
1978	16,790	2,690	730	160.2	13.81
1979	15,869	2,585	712	162.9	14.01
1980	15,949	2,107	709	132.1	11.67	6.5
1981	15,603	2,089	788	133.9	11.81
1982	15,935	1,671	750	104.9	9.49
1983	16,011	1,987	652	124.1	11.04
1984	15,722	2,563	634	163.0	14.02
1985	14,659	2,691	620	183.6	15.51	7.8
1986	14,648	2,673	544	182.5	15.43
1987	13,832	2,554	554	184.6	15.59
1988	14,105	2,424	498	171.9	14.67
1989	13,421	2,335	532	174.0	14.82
1990	13,315	2,316	532	173.9	14.82	6.3
1991	13,140	2,337	447	177.9	15.10
1992	13,328	2,076	456	155.8	13.48
1993	13,453	1,985	476	147.6	12.86
1994	13,516	1,881	415	139.2	12.22
1995	13,337	1,919	337	143.9	12.58	5.1
1996	13,663	1,981	349	145.0	12.66
1997	13,444	1,663	396	123.7	11.01
1998	13,779	1,807	380	131.1	11.59
1999	13,158	1,811	404	137.6	12.10
2000	13,270	1,899	379	143.1	12.52	5.6
2001	12,768	1,961	365	153.6	13.31	5.8
2002	12,472	1,967	427	157.7	13.62	5.9
2003	12,137	2,055	378	169.3	14.48	6.2
2004	11,749	1,913	333	162.8	14.00	5.9
2005	11,184	1,836	330	164.2	14.10	5.8
2006	11,476	1,709	340	148.9	12.96	5.5
2007	11,261	1,689	281	150.0	13.04	5.4
2008	10,981	1,416	285	129.0	11.42	4.6
2009	10,758	1,325	257	123.2	10.97	4.4
2010	10,694	1,495	275	139.8	12.27	4.9
2011	10,400	1,226	293	117.9	10.55	4.1
2012	10,565	1,072	269	101.5	9.21	3.7
2013	10,190	1,138	255	111.7	10.05	3.9
2014	9,625	958	205	99.5	9.05	3.4
2015	9,832	1,111	214	113.0	10.15	4.0
2016	9,430	998	190	105.8	9.57	3.7
2017	8,965	934	211	104.2	9.44	3.5
2018	8,947	918	179	102.6	9.31	3.5
2019	8,323	844	184	101.4	9.21	3.3
2020	7,831	793	158	101.3	9.20	3.2
2021	7,751	718	134	92.6	8.48	2.9
2022	7,315	663	149	90.6	8.31	2.8
2023	6,943	601	132	86.6	7.97
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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