Historical abortion statistics, Tottori (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Tottori (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	11,534		1,968
1900	11,693		2,011
1901	11,876		2,008
1902	11,884		2,090
1903	10,992		1,942
1904	10,913		1,840
1905	10,674		1,572
1906	10,639		1,731
1907	12,652		1,595
1908	12,640		1,600
1909	13,133		1,561
1910	13,258		1,598
1911	13,305		1,547
1912	13,465		1,519
1913	13,040		1,458
1914	14,118		1,441
1915	13,574		1,375
1916	13,850		1,389
1917	13,974		1,399
1918	14,184		1,441
1919	13,805		1,273
1920	15,428		1,316
1921	15,486		1,327
1922	15,345		1,181
1923	15,706		1,240
1924	15,387		1,117
1925	15,641		1,112
1926	15,817		1,121
1927	15,234		1,042
1928	14,994		972
1929	15,265		1,002
1930	14,900		1,058
1931	15,152		1,029
1932	15,483		1,050
1933	14,839		915
1934	13,907		864
1935	14,625		823
1936	14,584		793
1937	14,702		833
1938	12,799		667
1939	11,710		608
1940	12,980		607
1941	14,316		606
1942	13,063		539
1943	13,462		521
1944
1945
1946
1947	19,348		1,131
1948	19,876		1,235
1949	18,721		1,783
1950	16,108		2,335
1951	14,912		2,537
1952	13,776		2,257
1953	13,377		2,074
1954	12,460		2,018
1955	11,901	11,579	2,021	972.9	49.31	74.3
1956	11,639		1,854
1957	10,710		1,644
1958	10,508		1,581
1959	10,360		1,693
1960	9,575	10,729	1,572	1,120.5	52.84	69.5
1961	9,441		1,521
1962	9,134		1,326
1963	8,692		1,284
1964	8,694		1,164
1965	8,560	5,435	1,015	634.9	38.84	34.9
1966	6,125		974
1967	8,677		877
1968	8,101		849
1969	8,061		887
1970	7,998	4,691	789	586.5	36.97	30.4
1971	8,673		767
1972	8,993		692
1973	9,011		625
1974	9,030		612
1975	8,755	4,235	557	483.7	32.60	28.3
1976	8,657		507
1977	8,501		521
1978	8,423		485
1979	8,267		482
1980	8,196	4,106	419	501.0	33.38	28.1
1981	8,006		406
1982	7,939		459
1983	8,238		383
1984	7,982		401
1985	7,508	3,625	376	482.8	32.56	24.7
1986	7,342		379
1987	6,989		339
1988	6,887		304
1989	6,400		279
1990	6,412	2,881	300	449.3	31.00	20.4
1991	6,187	2,774	253	448.4	30.96
1992	5,973	2,790	264	467.1	31.84
1993	5,823	2,515	225	431.9	30.16
1994	6,027	2,298	222	381.3	27.60
1995	5,723	2,150	228	375.7	27.31	15.9
1996	5,582	2,298	233	411.7	29.16
1997	5,603	2,303	200	411.0	29.13
1998	5,624	1,797	179	319.5	24.22
1999	5,352	2,232	185	417.0	29.43
2000	5,645	2,244	192	397.5	28.44	17.8
2001	5,595	2,294	190	410.0	29.08	17.9
2002	5,365	2,410	198	449.2	31.00	18.8
2003	5,473	2,432	179	444.4	30.77	19.3
2004	5,275	2,163	174	410.0	29.08	17.4
2005	5,012	1,960	172	391.1	28.11	15.9
2006	5,186	1,770	157	341.3	25.45	14.9
2007	5,015	1,668	146	332.6	24.96	14.0
2008	4,878	1,546	126	316.9	24.07	13.2
2009	4,876	1,467	138	300.9	23.13	12.6
2010	4,790	1,286	138	268.5	21.17	11.6
2011	4,931	1,257	116	254.9	20.31	11.4
2012	4,771	1,181	115	247.5	19.84	10.8
2013	4,759	1,084	104	227.8	18.55	10.1
2014	4,527	1,089	109	240.6	19.39	10.4
2015	4,624	1,043	101	225.6	18.40	10.0
2016	4,436	988	98	222.7	18.22	9.6
2017	4,310	946	90	219.5	18.00	9.3
2018	4,190	850	90	202.9	16.87	8.5
2019	3,988	878	106	220.2	18.04	8.8
2020	3,783	732	88	193.5	16.21	7.5
2021	3,708	652	76	175.8	14.95	6.7
2022	3,752	617	61	164.4	14.12	6.4
2023	3,263	607	68	186.0	15.68
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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