Historical abortion statistics, Tochigi (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Tochigi (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	27,240		3,791
1900	26,891		3,779
1901	29,374		4,545
1902	29,816		4,469
1903	28,271		4,293
1904	28,142		4,268
1905	29,855		4,393
1906	26,180		4,530
1907	30,459		4,633
1908	31,989		4,739
1909	32,880		4,874
1910	33,305		4,688
1911	34,846		4,753
1912	33,306		4,531
1913	35,020		4,612
1914	36,703		4,812
1915	37,356		4,702
1916	36,786		4,558
1917	39,219		4,486
1918	36,442		4,281
1919	36,525		4,096
1920	41,337		4,371
1921	39,986		4,001
1922	40,703		4,096
1923	41,334		3,948
1924	40,155		3,600
1925	41,766		3,479
1926	41,500		3,421
1927	40,778		3,086
1928	41,308		3,059
1929	40,134		2,743
1930	40,726		2,798
1931	39,825		2,766
1932	41,235		2,867
1933	40,388		2,599
1934	39,219		2,653
1935	41,799		2,547
1936	39,735		2,560
1937	41,126		2,320
1938	36,107		2,160
1939	34,671		2,106
1940	38,842		2,290
1941	38,739		2,154
1942	37,474		1,747
1943	38,171		1,769
1944
1945
1946
1947	54,870		2,373
1948	53,677		2,766
1949	53,273		3,234
1950	46,804		3,697
1951	42,012		3,838
1952	39,098		3,640
1953	36,250		3,425
1954	34,401		3,262
1955	33,428	13,718	3,064	410.4	29.10	35.4
1956	30,966		2,811
1957	28,326		2,721
1958	28,959		2,851
1959	27,545		2,650
1960	26,066	12,666	2,522	485.9	32.70	32.7
1961	24,833	11,645	2,464	468.9	31.92
1962	24,235	10,719	2,382	442.3	30.67
1963	24,696	9,682	2,212	392.0	28.16
1964	24,387	8,574	2,179	351.6	26.01
1965	25,739	8,178	2,182	317.7	24.11	19.8
1966	18,646	7,797	1,961	418.2	29.49
1967	27,409	6,942	2,011	253.3	20.21
1968	25,560	7,454	1,797	291.6	22.58
1969	26,337	7,998	1,721	303.7	23.29
1970	27,535	7,962	1,705	289.2	22.43	18.2
1971	29,318	7,901	1,796	269.5	21.23
1972	30,549	7,815	1,705	255.8	20.37
1973	31,785	7,657	1,552	240.9	19.41
1974	31,218	8,013	1,500	256.7	20.43
1975	29,673	7,776	1,461	262.1	20.76	17.3
1976	29,304	6,719	1,451	229.3	18.65
1977	28,337	7,539	1,328	266.0	21.01
1978	27,314	7,374	1,221	270.0	21.26
1979	27,033	7,579	1,197	280.4	21.90
1980	25,928	7,619	1,120	293.9	22.71	17.0
1981	25,178	7,899	1,156	313.7	23.88
1982	24,865	8,313	1,207	334.3	25.06
1983	24,667	8,221	1,123	333.3	25.00
1984	24,248	8,335	1,141	343.7	25.58
1985	23,842	8,319	996	348.9	25.87	18.1
1986	22,662	7,685	1,023	339.1	25.32
1987	22,693	7,354	1,024	324.1	24.47
1988	21,530	7,349	1,015	341.3	25.45
1989	20,289	7,040	883	347.0	25.76
1990	19,995	6,930	895	346.6	25.74	14.6
1991	19,933	7,089	788	355.6	26.23
1992	19,441	6,928	826	356.4	26.27
1993	18,960	6,466	763	341.0	25.43
1994	19,735	6,206	729	314.5	23.92
1995	18,662	5,988	657	320.9	24.29	12.5
1996	19,112	5,990	694	313.4	23.86
1997	18,642	5,885	681	315.7	23.99
1998	18,836	5,793	714	307.5	23.52
1999	18,485	5,856	649	316.8	24.06
2000	18,976	6,179	626	325.6	24.56	13.7
2001	18,911	6,223	624	329.1	24.76	13.7
2002	18,376	6,025	644	327.9	24.69	13.5
2003	18,122	5,575	599	307.6	23.53	12.6
2004	17,816	5,006	556	281.0	21.93	11.4
2005	17,363	4,935	485	284.2	22.13	11.4
2006	17,647	4,627	502	262.2	20.77	10.9
2007	17,233	4,372	462	253.7	20.24	10.4
2008	17,240	4,102	464	237.9	19.22	9.8
2009	17,004	3,807	399	223.9	18.29	9.3
2010	16,473	3,372	398	204.7	16.99	8.3
2011	15,913	3,287	393	206.6	17.12	8.2
2012	15,973	3,148	383	197.1	16.46	7.9
2013	15,588	3,020	344	193.7	16.23	7.7
2014	15,442	2,867	356	185.7	15.66	7.4
2015	15,306	2,748	326	179.5	15.22	7.1
2016	14,621	2,666	321	182.3	15.42	6.9
2017	14,029	1,623	329	115.7	10.37	4.3
2018	13,495	2,419	286	179.3	15.20	6.5
2019	12,608	2,288	283	181.5	15.36	6.3
2020	11,808	2,133	262	180.6	15.30	6.0
2021	11,475	1,800	253	156.9	13.56	5.1
2022	10,518	1,577	212	149.9	13.04	4.5
2023	9,958	1,477	208	148.3	12.92
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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