Historical abortion statistics, Shiga (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Shiga (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	21,662		1,913
1900	21,521		1,975
1901	22,354		2,142
1902	22,438		2,155
1903	22,058		2,112
1904	21,440		2,022
1905	20,385		1,877
1906	20,371		1,959
1907	22,341		2,033
1908	22,855		1,994
1909	22,446		2,014
1910	23,076		1,949
1911	23,364		1,904
1912	23,328		1,797
1913	22,788		1,872
1914	23,672		1,770
1915	23,019		1,647
1916	22,562		1,724
1917	21,471		1,615
1918	20,372		1,712
1919	20,947		1,477
1920	22,924		1,535
1921	22,015		1,472
1922	21,674		1,370
1923	22,215		1,463
1924	21,913		1,286
1925	21,638		1,287
1926	21,948		1,223
1927	21,315		1,199
1928	22,319		1,222
1929	20,825		1,152
1930	21,334		1,158
1931	21,173		1,103
1932	21,984		1,088
1933	20,613		1,005
1934	20,349		1,048
1935	21,305		1,063
1936	20,521		1,000
1937	21,193		953
1938	17,590		847
1939	16,311		808
1940	19,222		867
1941	18,946		844
1942	19,721		859
1943	19,724		831
1944
1945
1946
1947	25,869		1,107
1948	27,332		1,439
1949	25,662		1,895
1950	21,422		2,030
1951	19,360		1,936
1952	17,749		1,718
1953	16,260		1,470
1954	15,506		1,541
1955	15,053	14,620	1,502	971.2	49.27	65.1
1956	14,610		1,383
1957	13,237		1,332
1958	14,496		1,326
1959	14,025		1,313
1960	13,477	12,524	1,255	929.3	48.17	55.4
1961	13,041		1,197
1962	13,529		1,301
1963	13,672		1,192
1964	13,735		1,235
1965	14,277	8,249	1,065	577.8	36.62	34.9
1966	10,177		916
1967	15,138		1,004
1968	14,616		942
1969	14,803		892
1970	15,593	6,611	921	424.0	29.77	27.0
1971	16,376		932
1972	17,466		937
1973	17,858		849
1974	18,303		837
1975	17,629	6,300	822	357.4	26.33	24.4
1976	17,310		815
1977	16,919		804
1978	17,061		719
1979	15,884		654
1980	15,946	4,419	672	277.1	21.70	16.3
1981	15,400		647
1982	15,269		561
1983	15,674		551
1984	15,587		552
1985	14,863	4,496	541	302.5	23.22	15.4
1986	14,625		523
1987	14,350		522
1988	14,188		530
1989	13,494		465
1990	13,607	4,470	480	328.5	24.73	14.5
1991	13,249	4,454	428	336.2	25.16
1992	13,330	4,173	404	313.1	23.84
1993	13,044	4,162	353	319.1	24.19
1994	13,940	4,085	388	293.0	22.66
1995	13,320	3,772	371	283.2	22.07	11.7
1996	13,897	3,652	371	262.8	20.81
1997	13,708	3,456	361	252.1	20.14
1998	14,032	3,549	347	252.9	20.19
1999	14,040	3,515	318	250.4	20.02
2000	14,087	3,674	392	260.8	20.69	11.9
2001	14,015	3,661	333	261.2	20.71	11.7
2002	13,938	3,414	329	244.9	19.67	10.9
2003	13,624	3,273	293	240.2	19.37	10.4
2004	13,627	2,939	327	215.7	17.74	9.4
2005	12,899	2,758	308	213.8	17.62	8.8
2006	13,448	2,672	329	198.7	16.58	8.6
2007	13,343	2,532	298	189.8	15.95	8.2
2008	13,487	2,418	314	179.3	15.20	7.8
2009	13,151	2,221	292	168.9	14.45	7.2
2010	13,363	2,069	286	154.8	13.41	6.8
2011	13,338	1,838	272	137.8	12.11	6.0
2012	13,236	1,870	236	141.3	12.38	6.2
2013	13,015	1,619	260	124.4	11.06	5.3
2014	12,729	1,478	224	116.1	10.40	4.9
2015	12,622	1,565	253	124.0	11.03	5.3
2016	12,073	1,366	213	113.1	10.16	4.6
2017	11,600	1,329	190	114.6	10.28	4.5
2018	11,350	1,174	207	103.4	9.37	4.0
2019	10,627	1,142	183	107.5	9.70	4.0
2020	10,437	1,103	184	105.7	9.56	4.0
2021	10,130	975	173	96.2	8.78	3.5
2022	9,766	910	188	93.2	8.52	3.3
2023	9,249	807	177	87.3	8.03
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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