Historical abortion statistics, Toyama (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Toyama (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	25,430		824
1900	26,993		921
1901	26,692		982
1902	29,066		1,173
1903	27,722		1,173
1904	27,763		1,168
1905	27,294		1,142
1906	25,781		1,311
1907	29,867		1,410
1908	28,967		1,410
1909	29,770		1,523
1910	30,342		1,568
1911	30,506		1,609
1912	30,110		1,536
1913	30,457		1,585
1914	31,448		1,606
1915	29,470		1,486
1916	29,344		1,578
1917	28,119		1,661
1918	26,336		1,541
1919	27,547		1,430
1920	30,201		1,504
1921	29,783		1,605
1922	27,386		1,433
1923	28,525		1,438
1924	29,006		1,386
1925	29,625		1,318
1926	29,305		1,384
1927	28,794		1,315
1928	29,092		1,289
1929	28,161		1,223
1930	28,399		1,298
1931	28,454		1,222
1932	29,298		1,203
1933	29,041		1,144
1934	26,636		1,128
1935	27,737		1,177
1936	28,231		1,169
1937	26,892		1,022
1938	23,052		898
1939	23,110		939
1940	25,805		1,003
1941	27,847		987
1942	28,406		988
1943	27,680		898
1944
1945
1946
1947	41,428		1,290
1948	35,777		1,448
1949	34,258		2,099
1950	27,880		2,274
1951	23,625		2,040
1952	22,206		1,956
1953	20,371		1,776
1954	19,282		1,819
1955	18,435	22,318	1,767	1,210.6	54.76	84.4
1956	16,646		1,636
1957	16,027		1,560
1958	16,713		1,638
1959	16,373		1,572
1960	16,126	15,249	1,436	945.6	48.60	54.9
1961	15,264		1,509
1962	15,430		1,447
1963	15,571		1,413
1964	15,940		1,297
1965	16,342	9,979	1,255	610.6	37.91	33.8
1966	12,111		1,128
1967	17,723		1,235
1968	16,884		1,139
1969	17,037		1,105
1970	17,493	7,165	1,137	409.6	29.06	24.4
1971	18,434		1,056
1972	18,975		910
1973	18,941		885
1974	18,650		821
1975	17,305	5,424	679	313.4	23.86	19.0
1976	16,873		724
1977	15,790		786
1978	15,066		680
1979	14,330		625
1980	13,555	4,772	575	352.0	26.04	17.2
1981	13,037		532
1982	12,761		596
1983	12,644		470
1984	12,582		487
1985	11,986	4,229	502	352.8	26.08	15.5
1986	11,605		518
1987	10,960		484
1988	11,005		461
1989	10,286		393
1990	10,050	3,373	392	335.6	25.13	12.3
1991	9,996	3,251	368	325.2	24.54
1992	9,887	3,292	344	333.0	24.98
1993	9,701	2,971	317	306.3	23.45
1994	10,227	2,889	293	282.5	22.03
1995	10,049	2,896	256	288.2	22.37	11.4
1996	10,272	2,843	298	276.8	21.68
1997	10,139	2,867	319	282.8	22.04
1998	10,117	2,634	287	260.4	20.66
1999	10,139	2,573	318	253.8	20.24
2000	10,170	2,598	288	255.5	20.35	11.1
2001	9,994	2,638	286	264.0	20.88	11.3
2002	9,854	2,665	308	270.4	21.29	11.5
2003	9,362	2,498	266	266.8	21.06	11.0
2004	9,396	2,358	279	251.0	20.06	10.4
2005	8,973	2,299	233	256.2	20.40	10.4
2006	8,965	2,258	248	251.9	20.12	10.3
2007	8,728	2,027	233	232.2	18.85	9.3
2008	8,709	1,903	206	218.5	17.93	8.9
2009	8,426	1,835	205	217.8	17.88	8.7
2010	8,188	1,570	188	191.7	16.09	7.5
2011	7,823	1,520	187	194.3	16.27	7.4
2012	7,880	1,382	199	175.4	14.92	6.7
2013	7,722	1,186	191	153.6	13.31	5.8
2014	7,556	1,119	155	148.1	12.90	5.6
2015	7,567	1,151	164	152.1	13.20	5.8
2016	7,302	979	152	134.1	11.82	5.0
2017	7,178	1,013	134	141.1	12.37	5.2
2018	6,846	1,050	140	153.4	13.30	5.5
2019	6,604	959	125	145.2	12.68	5.1
2020	6,256	848	116	135.5	11.94	4.7
2021	6,076	775	118	127.6	11.31	4.3
2022	6,022	749	106	124.4	11.06	4.3
2023	5,512	739	92	134.1	11.82
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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