Historical abortion statistics, Tokushima (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Tokushima (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	19,967		2,402
1900	21,307		2,333
1901	22,803		2,559
1902	22,940		2,643
1903	22,614		2,465
1904	21,791		2,387
1905	21,317		2,106
1906	20,630		2,314
1907	23,392		2,495
1908	23,470		2,424
1909	24,435		2,471
1910	23,790		2,343
1911	23,665		2,299
1912	24,024		2,233
1913	24,045		2,234
1914	24,093		2,201
1915	24,197		2,094
1916	23,741		1,963
1917	23,790		2,102
1918	23,626		2,221
1919	21,893		1,868
1920	25,378		2,059
1921	24,223		1,895
1922	23,525		1,912
1923	25,496		1,938
1924	23,530		1,770
1925	24,215		1,611
1926	25,932		1,700
1927	23,881		1,604
1928	24,926		1,560
1929	24,676		1,615
1930	24,132		1,455
1931	24,232		1,490
1932	25,284		1,554
1933	25,043		1,458
1934	23,473		1,478
1935	24,382		1,507
1936	23,513		1,359
1937	24,942		1,366
1938	20,594		1,135
1939	21,079		1,115
1940	21,193		1,113
1941	23,173		1,134
1942	23,189		954
1943	21,106		936
1944
1945
1946
1947	31,646		1,691
1948	32,003		1,942
1949	29,623		2,182
1950	25,469		2,359
1951	23,330		2,092
1952	20,817		1,962
1953	19,332		1,885
1954	18,128		1,839
1955	18,042	6,589	1,793	365.2	26.75	30.3
1956	16,590		1,801
1957	14,615		1,642
1958	15,583		1,745
1959	14,758		1,581
1960	13,317	4,929	1,422	370.1	27.01	23.1
1961	12,751		1,460
1962	12,405		1,393
1963	12,532		1,309
1964	12,460		1,219
1965	12,622	3,686	1,118	292.0	22.60	16.8
1966	8,664		1,003
1967	12,794		1,093
1968	11,639		924
1969	11,514		900
1970	11,852	4,475	971	377.6	27.41	20.5
1971	12,272		976
1972	12,035		935
1973	12,325		796
1974	12,209		799
1975	12,020	3,831	699	318.7	24.17	17.9
1976	11,446		655
1977	10,758		742
1978	11,109		590
1979	10,722		561
1980	10,544	3,472	552	329.3	24.77	16.8
1981	10,349		513
1982	10,262		477
1983	10,258		436
1984	10,067		419
1985	9,708	3,188	442	328.4	24.72	16.1
1986	9,239		420
1987	8,701		450
1988	8,761		367
1989	8,091		324
1990	7,943	2,132	327	268.4	21.16	10.8
1991	7,731	2,567	304	332.0	24.93
1992	7,447	2,370	271	318.2	24.14
1993	7,388	2,611	248	353.4	26.11
1994	7,412	2,364	222	318.9	24.18
1995	7,472	2,123	194	284.1	22.13	11.3
1996	7,390	2,165	249	293.0	22.66
1997	7,176	2,445	230	340.7	25.41
1998	7,255	2,102	232	289.7	22.46
1999	7,135	2,094	230	293.5	22.69
2000	7,224	1,851	199	256.2	20.40	10.4
2001	7,038	2,003	192	284.6	22.15	11.3
2002	6,836	1,959	220	286.6	22.27	11.2
2003	6,556	1,982	194	302.3	23.21	11.5
2004	6,493	1,999	203	307.9	23.54	11.8
2005	5,913	1,869	171	316.1	24.02	11.2
2006	6,257	1,727	168	276.0	21.63	10.6
2007	6,011	1,588	146	264.2	20.90	9.9
2008	5,893	1,479	164	251.0	20.06	9.4
2009	5,898	1,293	141	219.2	17.98	8.4
2010	5,904	1,159	152	196.3	16.41	7.8
2011	5,914	1,075	128	181.8	15.38	7.2
2012	5,744	1,060	143	184.5	15.58	7.3
2013	5,666	1,031	124	182.0	15.39	7.1
2014	5,502	999	129	181.6	15.37	7.0
2015	5,586	848	123	151.8	13.18	6.1
2016	5,346	788	94	147.4	12.85	5.7
2017	5,182	830	97	160.2	13.81	6.1
2018	4,998	805	91	161.1	13.87	6.1
2019	4,554	770	90	169.1	14.46	5.9
2020	4,521	733	93	162.1	13.95	6.1
2021	4,337	704	87	162.3	13.97	5.7
2022	4,148	650	79	156.7	13.55	5.5
2023	3,903	622	74	159.4	13.75
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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