Historical abortion statistics, Shimane (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Shimane (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	18,601		2,309
1900	19,965		2,254
1901	18,456		2,375
1902	20,060		2,533
1903	19,249		2,405
1904	17,960		2,223
1905	17,960		2,107
1906	18,294		2,214
1907	20,016		2,258
1908	20,875		2,364
1909	20,814		2,251
1910	20,996		2,357
1911	21,280		2,335
1912	21,377		2,290
1913	21,187		2,196
1914	22,173		2,168
1915	21,665		2,060
1916	21,818		2,006
1917	20,682		1,870
1918	21,472		2,024
1919	21,425		1,787
1920	23,703		1,839
1921	23,467		1,708
1922	22,735		1,672
1923	23,551		1,714
1924	22,173		1,498
1925	23,698		1,627
1926	23,542		1,442
1927	22,558		1,362
1928	23,372		1,449
1929	23,027		1,441
1930	22,276		1,381
1931	23,116		1,352
1932	24,264		1,350
1933	23,220		1,327
1934	22,219		1,186
1935	24,019		1,200
1936	22,292		1,158
1937	23,694		1,113
1938	19,489		889
1939	19,496		940
1940	20,161		875
1941	21,967		868
1942	22,301		865
1943	21,856		854
1944
1945
1946
1947	32,534		1,656
1948	30,363		1,993
1949	29,571		2,419
1950	25,857		2,593
1951	22,941		2,623
1952	20,774		2,484
1953	19,725		2,301
1954	17,859		2,154
1955	17,162	15,455	2,089	900.5	47.38	69.3
1956	16,628		1,956
1957	14,867		2,070
1958	15,243		2,186
1959	14,881		2,000
1960	14,113	13,427	1,827	951.4	48.75	61.8
1961	13,198		1,852
1962	12,661		1,757
1963	12,309		1,667
1964	12,136		1,510
1965	11,796	9,295	1,334	788.0	44.07	43.6
1966	8,630		1,189
1967	12,075		1,099
1968	10,993		998
1969	10,704		965
1970	10,539	5,808	907	551.1	35.53	28.6
1971	10,767		839
1972	10,938		808
1973	11,618		743
1974	11,409		684
1975	10,939	4,547	621	415.7	29.36	23.8
1976	10,511		591
1977	10,381		556
1978	10,247		519
1979	10,136		488
1980	9,959	4,811	470	483.1	32.57	26.6
1981	9,720		465
1982	9,366		473
1983	9,536		443
1984	9,278		417
1985	9,051	3,845	424	424.8	29.82	21.6
1986	8,828		386
1987	8,523		317
1988	8,156		333
1989	7,759		301
1990	7,510	3,159	291	420.6	29.61	18.8
1991	7,390	3,017	282	408.3	28.99
1992	7,081	2,692	287	380.2	27.55
1993	6,959	2,402	254	345.2	25.66
1994	7,068	2,381	216	336.9	25.20
1995	6,764	2,107	196	311.5	23.75	13.2
1996	6,828	2,053	217	300.7	23.12
1997	6,518	1,990	187	305.3	23.39
1998	6,491	1,919	210	295.6	22.82
1999	6,394	1,850	218	289.3	22.44
2000	6,522	1,749	201	268.2	21.15	12.0
2001	6,640	1,831	209	275.8	21.61	12.3
2002	6,318	1,796	185	284.3	22.13	12.1
2003	6,092	1,601	178	262.8	20.81	11.0
2004	6,104	1,439	191	235.7	19.08	10.0
2005	5,697	1,294	170	227.1	18.51	9.1
2006	6,011	1,240	160	206.3	17.10	9.1
2007	5,914	1,279	155	216.3	17.78	9.5
2008	5,685	900	155	158.3	13.67	6.8
2009	5,601	1,096	144	195.7	16.37	8.5
2010	5,756	980	143	170.3	14.55	7.8
2011	5,582	967	136	173.2	14.77	7.7
2012	5,585	935	138	167.4	14.34	7.7
2013	5,534	903	131	163.2	14.03	7.4
2014	5,359	817	124	152.5	13.23	6.8
2015	5,551	808	107	145.6	12.71	6.9
2016	5,300	708	136	133.6	11.78	6.0
2017	5,109	737	110	144.3	12.61	6.3
2018	4,887	628	99	128.5	11.39	5.5
2019	4,594	604	98	131.5	11.62	5.3
2020	4,473	541	91	120.9	10.79	4.8
2021	4,415	512	80	116.0	10.39	4.6
2022	4,161	437	71	105.0	9.50	4.0
2023	3,759	445	65	118.4	10.59
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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